Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is honouring actors Robert DeNiro, Cicely Tyson, Tom Hanks and Robert Redford with the nation’s highest civilian honour. They are among 21 people Obama plans ...

INDIANAPOLIS - The University of Notre Dame’s police department doesn’t have to release crime reports about student athletes to ESPN, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court s...

TORONTO - Food prices, especially those for meat, continue to fall from recent highs, Metro and Loblaw said Wednesday as both grocery chains reported strong quarterly results. “During the quarte...

DETROIT - Software designed to fix confusing gear shifters on 1.1 million Fiat Chrysler vehicles didn’t work on 29,000 of them. Now the owners are being asked to take the vehicles back to dealer...

WINNIPEG - Mike O’Shea didn’t want to talk about his future with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The head coach’s three-year contract with the CFL team is set to expire, and though his ov...

CALGARY - The Alberta Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by Dustin Paxton, who was found guilty in 2012 of torturing and starving his former roommate. Paxton, 36, was convicted of sexual and aggra...

MONTREAL - Canada must put together a team to educate Donald Trump and other Americans on the benefits of free trade, the country’s ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. Trade has beco...

VANCOUVER - The first beluga whale born in captivity in Canada has died at the Vancouver Aquarium. The facility said 21-year-old Qila’s sudden death Monday has left her mother Aurora adjusting t...

LIMA, Peru - Officials say five people have died and seven people are missing as the result of a fire at a shopping mall next to the hotel that will host world leaders at this week’s Asian-Pacif...

WASHINGTON - Canadians Frank Gehry and Lorne Michaels are among the newest recipients of America’s highest civilian honour: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. U.S. President Barack Obama announc...