Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government released its year-end financial figures Friday for 2015-16. Here are some highlights of the report, with 2014-15 numbers in parentheses: Revenue from sale of GM shares:...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a razor-thin $1-billion deficit in 2015-16, a period in which both the Liberals and Conservatives had turns managing the public books. The shortfall, released in...

NASHVILLE - P.K. Subban already has belted out “Folsom Prison Blues” at Tootsie’s, a famous honky tonk. He visited the local children’s hospital before training camp opened. Th...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - Pyeongchang’s preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics are on course but South Korean organizers must step up efforts to promote the games worldwide, the head ...

BERLIN - The British Museum is serving Germans a view from London of centuries of their own history. Some 200 exhibits illustrating the complex political and cultural history of Germany, which didn...

BALTIMORE - Most of Maryland’s top prosecutors are opposing a new trial granted to a man whose murder conviction was examined in the “Serial” podcast. The Baltimore Sun reports (http...

LAMEQUE, N.B. - Six dolphins who stubbornly refused efforts to free them from a shallow bay in northern New Brunswick appear to have been finally coaxed back to open ocean. “We don’t see t...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added 156,000 jobs in September, a decent gain that reflects a steady economy but also a sign that hiring has slowed from its robust pace last year. The unemployment rate t...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 7.0 per cent in September. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.0 per cent in September. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 13.6 per c...