Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Former NBA all-star Jerry Stackhouse is taking the helm of the Toronto Raptors’ minor league team. The Raptors announced Friday that he has been appointed the new head coach of Raptors...

A new classroom at Hazelwood Elementary School in St. John’s, N.L., has no walls, windows or desks - in fact, it’s not even inside the school. The outdoor classroom - situated amidst the t...

MONTREAL - Richard Henry Bain delivered his “sincerest apologies” Friday as a judge heard clashing arguments about how long the convicted Quebec 2012 election shooter should spend jailed b...

WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale businesses left their inventories unchanged as their sales fell in July. The Commerce Department said Friday that wholesalers held the line on stockpiles after increasing t...

LANSING, Mich. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to let Michigan’s new ban on straight-party voting take effect for the November election, rejecting state officials’ request to h...

DETROIT - Nissan is recalling over 120,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because brake fluid could leak and cause fires. In some cases owners should park their vehicles outside until they are fixed. The r...

TORONTO - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced Friday he is releasing a new solo album called “Secret Path.” Inspired by the harrowing story of a 12-year-old First Nations boy who...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Irving Oil says it has finalized its acquisition of the Whitegate refinery near Cork, Ireland. Irving joined with the Houston-based energy manufacturing and logistics company, Phill...

GENEVA - Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is now facing a bribery case, and one of his former vice-presidents was fined more than $1 million in a separate investigation into kickbacks. The FIFA ethi...

OTTAWA - “Right now we screen people for security reasons. We ask individuals what their income is. So why would we not ask some simple questions with regards to whether you believe in the equal...