Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Two former children’s hospital executives have been charged with fraud and breach of trust in relation to an expense scandal at Halifax’s IWK Health Centre. Former CEO Tracy Kitc...

CHIPMAN, N.B. - The man behind a New Brunswick village’s straight-pride flag says he and his supporters are considering legal action or a political challenge of the municipal officials who took ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is on track to run slightly deeper deficits than it’s been predicting for each of the next few years, says a new analysis released Tuesday by the parliamentary bu...

OTTAWA - The controversy surrounding Canada’s $15-billion deal to sell armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia got deeper on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that taxpayers would pay...

OTTAWA - A 24-hour strike at two of Canada’s busiest postal sorting plants Tuesday forced delays in shipments of tens of thousands of letters and parcels across the country as Canada Post employ...

TOKYO - A Japanese journalist freed after more than three years of captivity in Syria said Wednesday he is safe in neighbouring Turkey. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Japanese Embassy offici...

TORONTO - Sales of luxury homes in two of Canada’s most expensive cities fell this year, as the high-end real estate market continued to feel the impact of foreign buyers taxes. Realty brokerage...

WASHINGTON - Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday in a frank and personal letter that she has been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia,...

TOKYO - Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro and other major cigarette brands, is manoeuvring to keep itself in business in a post-smoking world with an advertising blitz in puff-happy Japan and other tob...

BRUSSELS - The European Union set up a high-stakes battle with Italy, one of the bloc’s biggest economies, over who has final control over a member state’s budget after the executive Commi...