Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday defended its decision to make a $400 million cash delivery to Iran contingent on the release of American prisoners, saying the payment wasn’t rans...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A Vermont inmate who once hatched a plot in a New Mexico prison to kill pop singer Justin Bieber was behind an anthrax scare at a courthouse where he was sentenced for killing a 15-y...

GANDER, N.L. - All passengers and crew are safe as a mechanical issue forced a British Airways jet flying from Paris to Newark to land at an airport in central Newfoundland today. Gander International...

SEATTLE - Paleontologists with Seattle’s Burke Museum have unearthed the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex that lived more than 66 million years ago, including a rare nearly complete 4-foot long skul...

OTTAWA - Defensive back Jermaine Robinson and the Ottawa Redblacks have no intention of giving Duron Carter any more attention than he deserves. Ottawa (4-2-1) hosts the Montreal Alouettes (2-5) on Fr...

MONCTON, N.B. - The federal and New Brunswick governments have announced an agreement to spend more than $176 million on 51 infrastructure projects. According to a release, the federal government will...

CALGARY - A former flight attendant suing WestJet says a review into the airline’s workplace harassment policies validates her view that the company is failing to protect its employees. The Calg...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Thursday it will phase out its use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending shares of the two publicly tr...

TORONTO - Few Canadian television events qualify as a momentous occasion for the nation, but Saturday’s Tragically Hip concert promises to be special. It seems like much of the country will be t...

TORONTO - The director of Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog says the agency is studying how vulnerable certain emerging technologies, such as those being pioneered by so-called fintech sta...