Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - One of Canada’s most notorious killers - who murdered three RCMP officers and wounded two others - has taken to an online matchmaking website where he portrays himself as “a ...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are refusing to let former cabinet minister Steven Fletcher run under the Tory banner in the next election. Fletcher wants to win back his old Winnipeg riding of Cha...

CALGARY - Canada’s oilpatch is eagerly anticipating higher prices and profits after Minnesota regulators approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.’s $9-billion project to upgrade its deteriorat...

OTTAWA - Expectations the Bank of Canada will raise its key interest rate target next month were bolstered Friday after stronger-than-expected economic growth in April and a report suggesting widespre...

NEW YORK - “I Am Jazz” star Jazz Jennings says she’s doing great following gender confirmation surgery. The 17-year-old posted a photo of herself in a hospital gown on Instagram. She...

LOS ANGELES - Paris Jackson has posted an online tribute to her grandfather, Joe Jackson, who died at the age of 89. On Instagram , the 20-year-old shared a photo Wednesday of her and her grandfather ...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s government-run cannabis monopoly has launched a hiring drive with jobs starting at $14 per hour, but it cannot yet confirm Montreal will be among the cities getting the first...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - On a mid-November afternoon in 2003, students from Beatrix Potter School in south London were gathering chestnuts for a game of British conkers in a cemetery near their school...

LONDON - The BBC struck a deal Friday with a senior journalist who quit her post to protest the British media company’s gender pay gap. The broadcaster accepted that Carrie Gracie, the broadcast...

OTTAWA - The problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system has already cost the federal government more than $1 billion and could require an additional $500 million a year until it is fixed, based on the gov...