Category Archives: Canadian Press

SARASOTA, Fla. - Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts is in “critical but stable” condition after slipping and cracking his head while playing with the family dog in Florida. The Di...

HONG KONG - An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong. Malaysian ...

Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black” has been named as a finalist for the Man Booker Prize for fiction. The Victoria-based author joins three U.K. writers and two Ameri...

Police have arrested one man and launched an international manhunt for two others in a pair of alleged Mob hits in southern Ontario, investigators announced Thursday, saying the deaths appear to be th...

LONDON - Comcast and 21st Century Fox will settle their battle for control of broadcaster Sky through a rare auction designed to put an end to months of offers and counteroffers from the American medi...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 20 --- FREELAND NOT CLOCK-WATCHING ON NAFTA Chrystia Freeland and her U.S. trade counterpart are back at the NAFTA negotiating table today as time marches ...

OTTAWA - The federal government insists pot legalization will help the country snuff out crime - but internally it’s wondering what will become of the fuzzy world of illegal online weed transact...

WASHINGTON - Despite the eye-popping figures thrown around in the NAFTA conversation - $2 billion in daily trade, 18 million autos built each year, hundreds of thousands of jobs in the U.S. - one numb...

EDMONTON - Alberta Environment says two black bear cubs being rehabilitated will be returned to the wild by mid-October despite concerns that it is too early. The Cochrane Ecological Institute, a non-...

OTTAWA - Belleisle Foods Ltd. is recalling its Belleisle Farms brand of Cole Slaw from stores due to possible Listeria contamination. There have been no reported illnesses associated with the product,...