Category Archives: Canadian Press

In a story March 7, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the NCAA would earn $869 million this year from its deal with CBS and Turner for the men’s basketball tournament. The correct r...

VANCOUVER - Nearly 8,500 homes have been declared vacant or underused in Vancouver after the submission deadline passed for the city’s new empty homes tax. The figure not only includes propertie...

WASHINGTON - In the squabbling Trump White House, no insider is ever above rebuke and no one blacklisted beyond redemption. Trade adviser Peter Navarro, once barred from sending private emails and spo...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The U.S. Navy has begun five weeks of submarine training and testing off Alaska’s north coast that will include breaching the massive underwater vessels through Arctic sea ic...

WASHINGTON - The White House says President Donald Trump still believes that the hunting of African elephants for sport is a “horror show,” after the Interior Department quietly lifted pro...

MIAMI - Microphones were found in a room where a Saudi prisoner met with his lawyers at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, U.S. officials said in recently filed court documents that shed light on an...

SAO PAULO - A former chief executive officer of state oil company Petrobras was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday as part of sprawling corruption investigation that has ensnared many of Brazil...

WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday that Mexico, Canada and other countries may be spared from President Donald Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security “...

NEW YORK - An aggrieved harness-racing bettor has gone to court to recoup more than $31,000 in winnings he said he was cheated out of when a doped horse won a race in New Jersey two years ago. Leading...

A recent rampage by a group of masked vandals describing themselves as “the ungovernables” has turned up the volume on long-simmering conversations around gentrification in one southern On...