Category Archives: Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court upheld a copyright infringement verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines.” In a split decision from a ...

NEW YORK - The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, accept responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management exper...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is refusing to say how much money has been allocated in his government’s budget to cover the costs of implementing the sale of legalized cannabis. Th...

MONTREAL - Crown prosecutors in Quebec will not lay charges against a motorist whose vehicle struck and killed a cyclist. Clement Ouimet, 18, died last October shortly after being hit as the driver at...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will address long wait lists for hip and knee replacements, allowing an extra 4,000 people to have the surgeries in the coming year, the premier says. John Horgan said a $...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday in a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy’s durability while signalling that it plans to continue a gradual approach to ...

TORONTO - The Canadian men’s under-18 rugby sevens team did its part to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires later this year. The young Canadians went undefeated at a qualifying t...

PARIS - Britney Spears has landed her first high fashion modeling campaign as the new face of Paris-based Kenzo. The 36-year-old singer said she had been waiting for the “right fit and the right...

TORONTO - A former Somali child refugee has been granted a brief reprieve from a deportation hearing while a judicial review of his case is conducted. The Immigration and Refugee Board in Toronto dela...

MOSCOW - A rocket carrying two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station has blasted off successfully. The Soyuz booster blasted off as scheduled Wednesday from th...