Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan reaching its highest level since June. Rates remain at historically low levels, however. Mortgage giant Fredd...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it will provide more oversight to rural police departments, a day after an independent review found the force in Truro badly mishandled its investigation into...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Real Estate Association says national home sales dropped 3.1 per cent in August from July for the fourth straight monthly decline, as some markets have started to slow dramatical...

LAVAL, Que. - A decision to grant convicted sex offender Graham James full parole sparked outrage Thursday from some of the players he abused when he was a junior hockey coach. James, 64, is serving a...

MONTREAL - Quebec is often held up as a model for other provinces to follow when it comes to regulating the growing home-sharing market, but doubts are being raised over whether recent provincial chan...

EDMONTON - A judge allowed cameras in an Edmonton courtroom for his verdict Thursday in the case of Travis Vader. Vader was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 deaths of Lyle and Marie Mc...

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the example of Italian grandmothers in Montreal to explain Thursday why Canadians shouldn’t be “overly impatient” with the integration o...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in July while sales declined slightly. The Commerce Department says inventories were flat in July after rising a modest 0.2 per cent in Jun...

BEIRUT - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Syria’s besieged rebel-held part of the city of Aleppo were held up for yet another day as heavy fighting broke out Friday on the edges of Damascus b...

HALIFAX - At the auto dealerships in southwestern Nova Scotia, it’s not unusual for a fisherman to mark the purchase of a new truck by presenting the successful salesman with a fresh lobster. Cl...