Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - More than 10 years after being described as the “central figure” in an elaborate and lucrative sponsorship kickback scheme, a man once close to ex-prime minister Jean Chretien w...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa police officer apologized to his family, the force and the Inuit community on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two Police Services Act charges in connection with online remarks he m...

MIAMI - Ray Allen won championships in Boston and Miami, made one of the most memorable shots in NBA Finals history and has more 3-pointers than anyone who ever played in the league. More than two yea...

OTTAWA - An indigenous member of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s economic advisory council is taking issue with the federal government’s claims that First Nations agencies lack the capacit...

SURREY, B.C. - Paul McCallum hadn’t touched a football since retiring when he answered his phone on Sunday. By Tuesday morning, he was back kicking with the B.C. Lions. The 46-year-old has rejoi...

BUCHAREST, Romania - All night long, a cold wind howled around the gothic castle that inspired the Dracula legend, as a Canadian brother and sister became the first people to pass the night there in 7...

WASHINGTON - Manufacturing expanded in the United States and China last month, good news for a sputtering global economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its manufacturing index ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. builders cut their spending on construction projects in September, the second straight monthly decline. Much of the decrease came as government spending for schools, sewers and trans...

DETROIT - It’s a chilly autumn for U.S. auto sales. Sales of new cars and trucks fell an estimated 4 per cent in October as consumer demand waned, according to Autodata Corp. Hyundai and Subaru ...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s lawyers pressed a judge Tuesday to keep the comedian’s damaging deposition in a decade-old lawsuit out of his sexual assault trial, saying Cosby agreed to an...