Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Philadelphia hockey legend Bobby Clarke remembers a day, before Eric Lindros played his first NHL game, when he hosted the future Flyers captain and his father for dinner. At one point Clark...

DOHA, Qatar - IOC President Thomas Bach defended his handling of the Russian doping scandal, attacked critics of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and claimed no cities would have bid for the 2024 Games wit...

LONDON - Kensington Palace says a new exhibition tracing the evolution of the late Princess Diana’s style is set to open in February. The palace said Tuesday that the exhibition, “Diana: H...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is moving to repeal a law that courts and critics have long said unfairly criminalizes the sexual activities of gay and bisexual men - part of broader efforts to turn t...

TORONTO - Royal Bank (TSX:RY) is hiking mortgage rates amid a combination of higher bond yields and recent federal mortgage rule changes that have made it pricier for banks to get access to cash. RBC ...

WASHINGTON - Manufacturing in New York state expanded in November, ending three straight months of contraction. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says its Empire State index rose to a reading of 1....

WASHINGTON - American consumers ramped up their spending last month in a sign of robust health heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales rose 0.8 per cent in October, after an upw...

KENTVILLE, N.S. - A man sobbed into his hands in a Kentville, N.S., courtroom Tuesday as he testified that well-known Toronto pastor Brent Hawkes encouraged him and other teenage males to strip at a d...

DOHA, Qatar - Los Angeles sought to allay concerns over Donald Trump’s election, Paris played up its glamorous venues and Budapest set itself apart as a mid-sized alternative as the three cities...

CALGARY - The massive efforts to respond to and rebuild after the wildfire of Fort McMurray, Alta., will spur economic growth in the coming years but leave insurance companies and governments with a t...