Category Archives: Canadian Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Elvis Presley fans will no longer pay about $30 to visit his grave during the annual candlelight vigil on his death anniversary in Memphis, Tennessee. Graceland officials say the char...

NEW YORK - Designer Jeremy Scott was a man with a message on Thursday night at his star-studded runway show, and that message was directed at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Scott made his trad...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - One of the five employees slain in the June shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland will have his novel published. The Baltimore Sun reports Rob Hiaasen’s “Fl...

PHILADELPHIA - As Colin Kaepernick watched from the apparel giant’s headquarters in Oregon, Nike aired its highly anticipated ad featuring the quarterback known for his social protests during th...

WASHINGTON - Celebrity chef Mike Isabella once had more than a dozen restaurants in the Washington area. Now he’s filed for bankruptcy after a sexual harassment lawsuit. The Washington Post repo...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labra...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - Canada’s seesawing employment report posted particularly volatile numbers last month that showed big, mid-summer gains had essentially been wiped out by August. The economy lost 51,600 ...

LONDON - Hackers obtained the credit card details of some 380,000 British Airways travellers during a two-week data breach this summer that leaves the customers vulnerable to financial fraud, the airl...

OTTAWA - A quick look at August employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.0 per cent (5.8) Employment rate: 61.4 per cent (61.6) Participation rate: 65.3 per cent ...