Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - A two-month rent strike at a west Toronto highrise is expected to end after a landlord abandoned a bid to raise tenants’ rents by more than double the amount recommended by the governm...

NEW YORK - The leader of a secretive group in upstate New York turned female followers into brainwashed “slaves” who were branded with his initials and coerced into having sex, authorities...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s Crown-owned utility has reached a settlement with insurers who underwrote an all-risk policy for refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station, whic...

LONDON - A group of whistleblowers are questioning the integrity of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, presenting 50 pages of documents that they say prove the official Brexit campaign ...

Volvo Ocean Race officials say a crewman on Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag has fallen overboard in the inhospitable Southern Ocean some 1,400 nautical miles west of Cape Horn at the southern tip of South...

OTTAWA - The federal minister in charge of a decade-long housing strategy says the plan will be based on a “right to housing” as he faces criticism the Liberals are watering down the pledg...

TOKYO - Asian shares rose Tuesday as news that the U.S. and China are open to negotiating to avert a trade war put investors in a buying mood, setting off a rebound on Wall Street. KEEPING SCORE: Japa...

CALGARY - Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says he has no immediate solution for getting Canadian grain moving again as farmers begin planning for spring seeding. “It’s been ...

MEXICO CITY - Officials in Mexico are offering a $55,000 reward for information about three film students who were abducted a week ago. The government of western Jalisco state offered the reward Monda...

CALGARY - Sean Burke and Martin Brodeur will select the Canadian hockey squad that will go for gold at the 2018 IIHF World Championship in Denmark. Burke put together the Canadian team that won bronze...