Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods fell 3.7 per cent in January, the biggest decline since July 2017, following two months of increases that reflected strength in the country&...

JERUSALEM - Christian leaders said Tuesday that they will reopen the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after Israeli officials suspended a plan to impose taxes on church properties in the holy...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Italian organized crime figures may have been involved in the shooting death of an investigative journalist in Slovakia, a Canadian reporter said Tuesday as the country’...

WASHINGTON - New Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered a message Tuesday that wasn’t quite what Wall Street had expected: The U.S. economy is doing well, maybe even better than he thought late last ...

An Australian man has been charged after police allege he exploited a nine-year-old Canadian girl online. Police in Sydney, Australia, said they began investigating the man in November 2017 thanks to ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It looks like Newfoundland and Labrador will be able to hang onto seven-digit dialling, for now. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission recently issue...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 27 --- GENDER EQUALITY LIKELY TO BE KEY THEME IN BUDGET Gender equality and the birth of a national pharmacare plan are expected to be key elements of today...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government reconvened the legislature Tuesday for its earliest spring sitting since 1995, but tabled no major bills despite what’s seen as a full agenda in ...

VANCOUVER - Amie Peacock describes her mother as “a social butterfly,” but when she came to visit her in Vancouver from the Philippines a lack of friends and a language barrier left her mi...

OTTAWA - A leading NATO researcher says Canada should assume Russia will attempt to interfere in the 2019 federal election because that would serve the Kremlin’s purpose of helping destabilize t...