Category Archives: Canadian Press

Calgary-based Athabasca Oil Corp. (TSX:ATH) has struck a deal to buy the northern Alberta oilsands assets of Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA for up to $832 million. The surprise sale agreement announc...

TORONTO - Medically sanctioned opioid use has dropped by almost 14 per cent since national guidelines for prescribing the drugs were introduced in 2010, yet the rate of overdose-related hospital visit...

A nickel here, a nickel there, and pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. Workers at a suburban Philadelphia steel plant operated a sophisticated theft ring that smuggled nearly $1 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon - massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our perso...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Michigan’s Republican Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become the new Republican National Committee chair next year. The niec...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Dec. 14 DOCUMENTS SHOW OTTAWA WATCHED U.S. CAMPAIGN WARILY: Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump presidency...

GATINEAU, Que. - Stephane Antiga, who recently coached Poland’s men’s national volleyball team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, will take over the reins Canada’s men’s program. Volley...

TORONTO - Tom Green remembers watching Alan Thicke’s homegrown talk show as a kid in Pembroke, Ont., in the early 1980s. Green was only about seven but was entranced with Thicke’s baritone...

HALIFAX - A wealthy Halifax couple who took their quest for an oceanfront swimming pool all the way to Nova Scotia’s highest court have lost. John and Esther Ghosn built a mansion on the Northwe...

WINNIPEG - A former cabinet minister and arguably the most popular member of the Manitoba New Democratic Party caucus is quitting politics to spend more time with his family. Kevin Chief said Wednesda...