Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Alberta’s top court has upheld the conviction of a man who tortured and starved his roommate and business partner before dropping him off near death at a hospital. The three-member Alb...

SASKATOON - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a “sudden and catastrophic failure” of a rail caused a fiery train derailment in Saskatchewan. The board says a rail that broke d...

COPENHAGEN - Bob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them “h...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - Quebec’s premier is opposed to a developer’s controversial proposal to build a Muslim housing community on Montreal’s south shore. Philippe Couillard says the co...

PHILADELPHIA - A fundraising campaign to help save Benjamin Franklin’s damaged gravestone is no longer livin’ on a prayer. Rocker Jon bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, on Tuesday donated $5...

CHICAGO - A delegation of Illinois political, religious, police and business leaders plan to travel to Rome this week as Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich becomes a cardinal. The list that Chicago Mayor...

COPENHAGEN - Bob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them “h...

U.S. homebuilders’ confidence held steady this month, though their expectations for sales into next year dimmed slightly. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment ...

WASHINGTON - Canada and Mexico reached out to each other while preparing similar public messages last week about being willing to engage U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in discussing amendments to t...

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon - Seismologists have upgraded the magnitude of an earthquake that has occurred in a remote area of southwestern Yukon. Earthquakes Canada says the magnitude is now measured at 5...