Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - A woman suffered burns to her hands after her cellphone caught fire on an Air Canada flight while it sat on the tarmac in Toronto, the airline said Thursday. The incident happened around 7 a...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government is considering legislation aimed at tax evaders that would give foreign authorities some access to Canadians’ confidential information...

MONTREAL - A Quebec woman who pleaded guilty to infanticide must take a pregnancy test every six months, a judge ordered Thursday. The 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty in November after her newborn ba...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business...

OTTAWA - Canada’s “flying Taj Mahal” is getting long in the tooth and may be in line for replacement. The 31-year-old plane, used to transport the prime minister and the Governor Gen...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s government has agreed to delay presidential elections by a month as part of a last-minute deal with a few of the political parties seeking to unseat President Ni...

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have thwarted a bid by Conservatives to force Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser to explain his assertion that rogue elements in the Indian government sabotaged the ...

OTTAWA - A severe shortage of rail cars has left millions of tonnes of in-demand grain trapped across Western Canada and farmers warn that billions of dollars in economic activity could be lost unless...

It’s taken eight years, but Akeem Haynes is a football player once again. The Olympic sprinter traded his track spikes for cleats last month, signing with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Despite not ha...

WORCESTER, Mass. - A Massachusetts man was charged Thursday with sending threatening letters with white powder to five people, including one to Donald Trump Jr. that landed his wife, Vanessa, in the h...