Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - U.S. banks’ earnings in the July-September period jumped nearly 13 per cent from a year earlier as continued growth in lending fueled interest income. The data issued Tuesday by the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence rebounded this month to the highest level in more than nine years as Americans appeared unfazed by a tumultuous election campaign. The Conference Board says its c...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified “consequences,” such as jail or a loss of citizenship. But the Supreme...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Rapper Kodak Black has been extradited to South Carolina to answer to a charge of criminal sexual conduct after serving a drug case sentence in Florida. The Florida Sun Sentinel re...

TORONTO - Not since the heyday of the NASL has Canadian club soccer had such a stage. On Wednesday night before a record BMO Field crowd of some 36,000, Toronto FC looks to win and stay home to host t...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s auditor general says the provincial government’s pace of annual deficits and net debt growth is not sustainable. Kim MacPherson says the government can’...

FREDERICTON - A spirited battle over the right to bring beer across provincial borders could be headed to the Supreme Court of Canada, in a case that could have broad national trade implications. R...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military risks becoming hamstrung if it doesn’t clean up its recruiting system and the way critical hardware such as planes, ships and armoured vehicles are supported, the ...

OTTAWA - The federal government takes months - sometimes years - to make decisions, costing Canadians time and money when it comes to resolving tax disputes, the federal auditor general says. And that...

OTTAWA - The federal spending watchdog says the government has no way of telling whether its billion-dollar border plan is improving security or helping to speed the flow of goods and people between C...