Category Archives: Canadian Press

HARTFORD, Conn. - A judge on Friday dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing an embattle...

He followed in the footsteps of a Hall of Fame father but Daryl Wells Jr. made the job of calling races at Fort Erie Racetrack his own. Wells served as race announcer and the unofficial face of Fort E...

OTTAWA - Ontario MP and former veterans affairs minister Erin O’Toole is the latest to join the Conservative leadership race after opening his campaign Friday in Bowmanville, Ont. Here is the li...

MONTREAL - The five-year rivalry between Toronto FC and the Montreal Impact has never been more intense and a new chapter will be written Sunday afternoon in the next-to-last regular-season game for b...

TORONTO - Canadian mortgage brokers say they’re seeing a flurry of borrowers trying to pre-empt new federal rules that take effect Monday that will reduce the purchasing power of some first-time...

PORTLAND, Maine - The European Union is backing off a Swedish proposal to ban imports of American lobster into 28 member countries. Officials with the EU say the European Commission has informed Swede...

WICHITA, Kan. - Three members of a Kansas militia group were charged Friday with plotting to bomb an apartment complex that’s home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of ...

WASHINGTON - The government ran a $587 billion budget deficit for the just-completed fiscal year, a 34 per cent spike over last year after significant improvement from the record deficits of President...

Ottawa was sleepy and mostly congenial all week long - at least until Friday - with most MPs back in their ridings after Thanksgiving and cabinet ministers off cutting ribbons in far-flung places. Pol...

Jim Prentice, the former federal cabinet minister and former Alberta premier, died Thursday in a plane crash outside Kelowna, B.C. Here are some key events in his political career. July 20, 1956: Born...