Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday he will not attend an investment conference in Saudi Arabia. Mnuchin made the announcement on his Twitter account , saying that the decisio...

KABUL - A high-level meeting on security plans for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections had just concluded when an elite Afghan guard turned his gun on the departing delegation Thursday, killin...

PHILADELPHIA - A toddler’s caregiver was charged with murder in the suffocation death of the baby whose body was found partially buried in a public park with the top of her head exposed, police ...

TORRINGTON, Conn. - A Connecticut restaurant accused of serving alcohol to the wife of ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman before she was killed in a car crash has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a...

OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to lower and cap the fees credit card companies collect from small businesses. Last summer, Ottawa announced voluntary, five-ye...

TORONTO - The country’s real estate market may be taking a breather, but a new survey suggests the vast majority of recent homebuyers are maxing out their budgets to purchase their first homes. ...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned an appeals court ruling that agreed with the government’s decision to bar an American graduate student from entering the country o...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s government-owned cannabis retailer said it has successfully taken measures to prevent people from skirting the access code required as part of age verification for online...

OTTAWA - The father of a British-Canadian man imprisoned in Syria says his son is not a terrorist and deserves Canada’s protection. In a letter to Canadian MPs, John Letts says his son, Jack, is...

HALIFAX - The credibility of a woman who alleges she was gang raped at a Halifax-area military base was undermined by inconsistencies in her testimony, the lawyer for an accused British sailor told No...