Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Rising provincial minimum wages have cut into the reach of the Liberal government’s oft-touted increase to summer jobs spending by reducing the number of weekly hours being funded this ...

In the battle of two very different sequels at the box office this weekend, Denzel Washington’s action pic “The Equalizer 2” has narrowly won out over the ABBA jukebox musical “...

HALIFAX - U.S. President Donald Trump - or at least a culinary version of him - may be rendered speechless after a Halifax-based doughnut shop released a new creation to celebrate Pride Week. Vandal D...

TORONTO - A lawsuit filed by a Toronto woman against a fertility clinic that she claims was responsible for the loss of dozens of her eggs has drawn attention to a reproductive industry that doctors a...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia has “no option” but to pursue multi-party democracy, the reformist new prime minister said Sunday, again shaking up Africa’s second most populous nat...

New research is upending old assumptions about what the ancestors of today’s Inuit learned from Viking settlers. And the techniques researchers have developed to show that ancient Dorset and Thu...

STANDOFF, Alta. - A dispute between two families over land on Canada’s largest reserve is heading to court in part to question whether First Nations members have any right to the ground beneath ...

TORONTO - After her husband died, Elizabeth Hill says she would lay awake listening for bumps in the night in her eerily empty home - so to get some shut-eye, she decided let a stranger live with her....

TORONTO - It was an Instagram photo that caught long-time restaurateur Stacey Patterson’s eye: six chefs - all men - at a table together playing poker. It’s an image of camaraderie that Pa...

KILLARNEY, Ont. - Crews from across the country continued to cut down dozens of raging fires in northeastern Ontario on Sunday, after evacuation orders left some property owners uncertain of whether t...