Category Archives: Canadian Press

CANNES, France - Film director Ryan Coogler says “The Godfather” was a major influence on “Black Panther,” but he was apprehensive about making that public. In a talk at the Ca...

TORONTO - Tim Hortons is ready to make amends. President Alex Macedo has been crisscrossing the country over the last few days, meeting with thousands of franchisees in a bid to regain their trust and...

EDMONTON - Alberta is putting an expiry date on proposed legislation that would allow the province to regulate oil and gas shipments. The government has said it might use such a law against British Co...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Department of Justice attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request to review the conviction of an inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” do...

NEW ORLEANS - A mural that covered the wall of a pioneering New Orleans bar is back on display for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. The 29-foot-long (9-meter-long) painting, which caricatures m...

OTTAWA - Lawmakers delving into the Facebook data scandal heard calls Thursday for substantial regulatory upgrades to protect the privacy of Canadians - as well as a warning from Jim Balsillie about t...

FREDERICTON - Two emaciated moose left stranded by floodwaters have been euthanized, in what animal welfare workers say is likely just the most visible symbol of a wider problem for New Brunswick wild...

FORT DODGE, Iowa - With best friends like these, who needs enemies? An Iowa man says his dog inadvertently shot him while they were roughhousing Wednesday. Fifty-one-year-old Richard Remme, of Fort Do...

Carol Hickins’ wedding dress arrived at her office “in a plastic bag inside a brown cardboard box,” she says. The packaging was a “letdown,” she says, but the dress was n...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s TV show has apologized for calling Newfoundlanders by a diminutive nickname many find offensive. The Twitter account for CNN’s &#...