Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Kevin Pillar didn’t mince words when talking about his team’s sudden inability to drive in runs. “Well it would help if (the bottom of the order) got on base,” the Bl...

HALIFAX - Police are looking for a violent thief with a taste for trousers. They say two men approached two other men in downtown Halifax (around Prince and Argyle streets) just after midnight and beg...

TORONTO - In a surprise move, Rogers Communications announced Monday the immediate departure of its CEO Guy Laurence and the uncertain arrival time for his replacement, former Telus chief executive Jo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Long-standing protests over the Muskrat Falls hydro project are escalating - including nine arrests Monday, a march on the provincial legislature and a hunger strike - as rese...

BEIJING - Surgeons from around the world gathered at a conference in Beijing on Monday in China’s latest effort to fight persistent skepticism about whether its hospitals have stopped performing...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a n...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven’t won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 17 --- ONTARIO’S NEW RULES FOR BOTTLED WATER COMPANIES Ontario’s Liberal government is proposing a two-year hold on the creation or expansion of an...

MONTREAL - As Montreal’s original subway cars are being gradually pulled out of service, at least a few of the 50-year-old cars will be getting second lives. As part of an event celebrating the ...

TORONTO - The head of the federal housing agency is raising a red flag about the state of Canada’s real estate sector, saying affordability concerns have spilled over from the country’s tw...