Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Democrats will try forcing a campaign-season vote on blocking a Trump administration rule letting insurers sell short-term plans that are cheaper but skimpier than allowed under the Obama...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - In the 1970s, Aidan O’Hara became known on Newfoundland’s Cape Shore as “the real Irishman” who came to town armed with a recorder, gathering tradition...

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is the world’s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion, the financial fruit of stylish technology that has redefined what we expect from our gadgets. The ...

TORONTO - The owner of a now defunct Toronto-area restaurant chain has been jailed for 90 days for failing to comply with a government order to pay former employees wages and other money they were owe...

MONTREAL - The sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International. The human rights organization said Samar Badawi was detained earlier this wee...

HALIFAX - The case of a known sex offender charged with aggravated sexual assault and choking after a woman said she was attacked in a Halifax home has been adjourned again. Sem Paul Obed appeared in ...

WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump received a new letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and responded quickly with a letter of his own. The correspondence, fo...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - A young Connecticut woman didn’t want to ever lose the autograph she got from Tom Brady. The New England Patriots star signed 19-year-old Megan Uhrynowski’s arm after a...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia says it has arranged to make use of a fast-track federal immigration program to help it recruit qualified childcare workers. Lena Diab, the minister responsible for the province&...

MONTREAL - Any hopes of the Montreal Impact landing French striker Jimmy Briand are finished. “The Briand file is closed since (Wednesday) afternoon. Definitively,” coach Remi Garde said T...