Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON, Ont. - Canada’s red-hot economy is indeed likely to slow down this year, making federal investments in boosting economic growth and job creation all the more important, Finance Minister ...

Former governor general Michaelle Jean was among those Canadians who sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday for reportedly using vulgar language to describe Haiti and countries in Af...

WASHINGTON - Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal American cold snap found that the Arctic blast really wasn’t global warming but a freak of nature. Frigid weather like the tw...

TORONTO - An 11-year-old Toronto girl said a scissors-wielding man came up behind her and cut her hijab repeatedly as she walked to school Friday, describing the incident as one that left her terrifie...

CHAPEL ISLAND, N.S. - A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq community that has dealt for more than a decade with brown and foul-smelling water should see construction begin this summer on a new treatment facili...

MONTREAL - The opposition at Montreal’s city hall has settled on a new name. The party once named for ex-mayor Denis Coderre will be known as Ensemble Montreal. It’s the second go at a mon...

SHERBROOKE, Que. - The jurors at the trial of three men charged with criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Megantic railway disaster will deliberate Saturday after failing to reach a verdict Fr...

MARINE CITY, Mich. - A ferry connecting cities in Ontario and Michigan across the St. Clair River has been shut down indefinitely due to damage by an ice jam to its Canadian dock. The Times Herald of ...

WASHINGTON - A string of calming comments from Donald Trump about NAFTA has trade proponents across the continent breathing some relief that the U.S. president’s trigger finger may not be about ...

WENGEN, Switzerland - Showing yet again that good slalom beats good downhill in Alpine combined, Victor Muffat-Jeandet rose from 27th place to win a World Cup on Friday. The Frenchman got his first ca...