Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - By stopping the sale of brands tied to gun manufacturing, the chief executive of Mountain Equipment Co-op says the company can play a role in advancing discussions around gun control. Davi...

NEW YORK - Equifax Inc. said Thursday that an additional 2.4 million Americans were impacted by last year’s data breach, however these newly disclosed consumers had significantly less personal i...

WASHINGTON - Activist groups are turning to television ads, including on President Donald Trump’s go-to network, Fox News, to pressure the White House into allowing transgender people to keep se...

WASHINGTON - The United States will impose wide-ranging tariffs on steel and aluminum, President Donald Trump declared Thursday, prompting allies to fume, stock markets to fall and analysts to fret ab...

WASHINGTON - Americans lifted their spending just 0.2 per cent in January, while their incomes jumped because of last year’s tax cuts. The Commerce Department said Thursday that the modest spend...

PARIS - French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre ...

TORONTO - Canadian band Hedley, which is facing mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, will be taking an “indefinite hiatus” after its cross-country tour at the end of March. In a stat...

MIAMI - Police say a 1-year-old boy died after being found inside a car parked at a shopping plaza where witnesses said his mother works at a beauty salon. Miami-Dade police tell news outlets that the...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Most of the board members of a Newfoundland Pride group have abruptly resigned, days after one of its leaders accused the police of targeting homosexual men for allegedly havi...

HALIFAX - The case of a Halifax man accused of hurling a vulgar slur at a female reporter taking part in a live broadcast has been adjourned until next month. Nash John Gracie, 25, was charged with pu...