Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Even working 40 hours a week, Sara Vassigh says she sometimes has trouble paying her rent and bills at the end of the month. With a salary just above minimum wage, she says home ownership, ...

NEW YORK - Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary celebrations this weekend come with a sense of relief for the group that traces its roots to a time when women could not vote and contraception ...

CLERMONT, Ky. - Bill Ball has handled multiple whiskey-making tasks in his 47 years at Jim Beam, but on Saturday he took on an unexpected role - joining colleagues on a picket line outside a Beam dist...

JOHANNESBURG - Experts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce global warming. The United States, the world’s second-worst polluter, is among the countries that wan...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is the country’s most famous working mother. For 40 years, she’s been at the centre of countless conversations about gender and politics. Even her pantsuits ha...

Russia’s U.N. ambassador said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war. But Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Cold War relations between the Soviet Un...

WASHINGTON - The skyline shimmers, the music pulses and Donald Trump’s helicopter swoops in for a landing. Oozing authority, the billionaire strides purposefully - in slow-motion, for added impa...

GREENWICH, Conn. - The headmaster of a Connecticut high school has apologized after its football team named one of its plays “Hitler.” Chris Winters, of Greenwich High School, issued the a...

TRENTON, N.J. - The legacy of Donald Trump’s casino empire disappeared from Atlantic City with last week’s closing of the Trump Taj Mahal, but donations he made years ago are factoring int...

CINCINNATI - The lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage across the county is being honoured with an award given to those that better their co...