Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland will have to wait until at least next month to learn if a date will be set for a new trial in his father’s 2011 murder. Oland was convicted of second-degree murde...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 4:40 p.m. Vice-President Joe Biden says that some of the economic proposals under discussion as a new administration prepares t...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The process of finding six objective jurors to hear the case of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband plodded forward Monday with the judge be...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies expanded last month at their fastest pace in more than a year. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade organization of purchasing managers, says its services ...

BANJUL, Gambia - A top Gambian opposition politician and 18 other protesters were released from prison after an appeals court granted them bail on Monday, just days after strongman ruler Yahya Jammeh ...

A former Canadian soldier being held in Iraq is in good health and Canadian Embassy officials are working to win his release, federal cabinet minister Judy Foote confirmed Monday. Foote, the senior mi...

NEW ORLEANS - One car rear-ends another on a Saturday night. People argue. It escalates. Ten or so gunshots later, one driver is dead and the other waits nervously to give his side of the story to pol...

GENEVA - Sepp Blatter lost his appeal against a six-year ban by FIFA on Monday, and now has more serious legal cases lined up against him. Blatter said in a statement it was “difficult” to...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia students will return to their classrooms Tuesday, as the government abruptly backed off plans to impose a contract settlement on teachers. The government had sent parents scrambl...

OTTAWA - Days after complaining that an all-party committee didn’t recommend a specific alternative to Canada’s voting system, the Trudeau government launched Monday an online interactive ...