Category Archives: Canadian Press

PARIS - Southern France has faced another terror attack, as an armed man opened fire on police officers Friday and took hostages in a supermarket before being shot dead by police. The attacks in a reg...

A teenage girl who was shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school has died, authorities said Friday. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Jaelynn Willey die...

NEW YORK - Stocks around the world plunged Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate. A second day of big losses p...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced criminal charges and sanctions Friday against Iranians accused in a hacking scheme to pilfer sensitive information from hundreds of universities, privat...

WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes slipped 0.6 per cent in February, a third straight monthly decline. But year to date, sales are up 2.2 per cent compared with 2017 in a sign that buyer demand rema...

MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has been hired as a special adviser by digital media company Stingray. Montreal-based Stingray provides multiplatform music, video and digital services. ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s highest court has upheld an influence peddling conviction against a one-time senior aide to former prime minister Stephen Harper. Bruce Carson’s case will now be sent bac...

ZURICH - Canada has moved back to fourth in the FIFA women’s rankings, matching an all-time high. The U.S. remains No. 1 ahead of England, which moved ahead of Germany into second. Canada and 20...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A national conservation organization said Friday it is “deeply concerned” about a 70 per cent decline in capelin abundance over the last two years in Newfoundland ...

OTTAWA - By 2030, tuberculosis will be a thing of the past in Canada’s North, the federal government promised Friday - part of a Liberal plan to battle a disease whose disproportionate impact am...