Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - Canada’s retail industry is warning that raising the duty-free allowance for cross-border shipments could lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses and cut billions of dollars from t...

OTTAWA - Business associations are warning that substantial tax changes in the U.S. could end up inflicting more damage on the Canadian economy than would the possible termination of the North America...

OTTAWA - A reproductive rights advocate who urged the Liberals to deny summer job grants to groups pushing for restricted access to abortion said the government may have gone a step too far in rolling...

WASHINGTON - Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and smoking itself became almost obsolete; only a tiny segment of Americans still lit up. That’s the goal of an unprecedented anti-smo...

TORONTO - The Canadian distributor of the EpiPen says there is a shortage of one size of the emergency treatment for people at risk of life-threatening allergic reactions. Pfizer Canada says there is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The author of the 2016 election-year bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy” has decided against joining the U.S. Senate race in Ohio. J.D. Vance said in a tweet Friday he’s bu...

DALLAS - Three members of a Dallas family who beat a pregnant teen and stomped on her belly until she miscarried have been sentenced to prison. The Dallas Morning News reports that the now-19-year-old...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed quarterback Zach Collaros to a new contract for the 2018 season, the CFL team said Friday in a release. The Roughriders recently acquired Collaros in ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Rapper Kodak Black has been ordered held without bail in Florida on seven felony charges that include child neglect and drug possession. The Broward Sheriff’s Office arre...

PHILADELPHIA - The Montreal Impact and Toronto FC opted to forgo their first-round picks at the MLS SuperDraft on Friday, trading them away for money to finance other player acquisitions. The Impact s...