Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The head of the International Monetary Fund says she hopes Canada and the European Union finalize their still-unsigned free trade agreement. Christine Lagarde made the comments Tuesday in Ott...

VICTORIA - Drywall prices across Western Canada have shot through the roof after the federal government imposed preliminary anti-dumping tariffs of up to 276 per cent on gypsum board products imported...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 13 ____ AMBROSE CALLS FOR UNITY AS TORY RACE HEATS UP: The Conservative leadership race is picking up steam after heavyweight would-be contender Peter ...

HALIFAX - Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose told MPs and senators they need to earn back the trust of Atlantic Canadians, who did not elect a single Conservative last year under the leadership ...

MONTREAL - The family of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran says the judge in the case has refused to accept her lawyer and has appointed one to his own liking. Homa Hoodfar’...

WINNIPEG - A teenager from western Manitoba is to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge. The 17-year-old admitted on Monday to counselling the commission of an indictable...

WASHINGTON - In a long-awaited sign that middle-class Americans are finally seeing real economic gains, U.S. households got a raise last year after seven years of stagnant incomes. Rising pay also lif...

TORONTO - Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson was not in the Toronto Blue Jays’ starting lineup on Tuesday, marking the second night in a row that the all-star third baseman has missed a...

OTTAWA - Loyce Maturu sat in the darkened railway committee room of the Parliament Buildings on Tuesday watching a video of two fellow African activists - a Kenyan mother and daughter - playing for a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California prosecutor said Wednesday that two men charged with murder in the shotgun slayings of two young girls can’t face the death penalty because it wasn’t an op...