Category Archives: Canadian Press

BATON ROUGE, La. - With calls for his resignation increasing, Louisiana’s secretary of state announced Tuesday that he is leaving his position as state elections chief amid allegations he sexual...

FORTUNE, N.L. - If all goes well, Canadians will soon be able to drive to a little-known corner of France. The French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon just off the south coast of Newfoundland - North Ame...

Toronto Wolfpack have signed Scottish international back Matty Russell. The 24-year-old, whose deal runs through 2020, had been with the Super League Warrington Wolves. Russell made his Super League d...

SYDNEY, N.S. - The death of a 79-year-old patient whose body was found outside the Cape Breton Regional Hospital this winter was “preventable,” health officials said Tuesday as police char...

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says Ottawa should put off legalizing marijuana for a year until Canada and First Nations can negotiate tax sharing, produce culturally appropriate education materials and ...

CALGARY - Brad Wall has stepped into a new job with an Alberta law firm just months after walking away from the premier’s office in Saskatchewan. Wall, who retired from politics in January, was ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s efforts to streamline its budgeting process mean $7 billion in new spending commitments would be subject to far less parliamentary scrutiny - and the money coul...

NASHVILLE - The maker of the Gibson guitar, omnipresent for decades on the American music stage, is filing for bankruptcy protection after wrestling for years with debt. A pre-negotiated reorganizatio...

WASHINGTON - The two top officials in charge of security and toxic-waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told l...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s political attacks on the FBI make America less safe because they undermine public confidence that the bureau is an “honest, competent and independent&...