Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed three fellow Nobel laureates who tried in a private meeting four years ago to persuade her to speak up for Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority, The Canadian P...

LUMBERTON, N.J. - A helicopter carrying singer Troy Gentry, of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, crashed on Friday, killing Gentry and the pilot. The crash occurred in a wooded ar...

NEW YORK - Rush Limbaugh, who has suggested that a “panic” caused by hurricanes benefits retailers, the media and climate change activists, abandoned his south Florida studio ahead of Hurr...

TORONTO - A proposed plan on the sale of marijuana unveiled Friday by the Ontario government stirred a lot of reaction. Here’s are some quotes: - “I have made it clear that while I support...

OTTAWA - The federal government laid down an ultimatum Friday to the U.S. company that owns the only rail line serving the isolated northern Manitoba town of Churchill: Fix it or sell it to someone wh...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A 28-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and robbery with violence in the death of a prominent Nova Scotia businessman. Jim Matthews - co-founder of a financial plan...

CALGARY - A Calgary man has been charged with impaired driving in the death of his own daughter. Police say a man was driving with two teens in a Jeep Liberty last October when the SUV spun into a med...

WASHINGTON - American consumers borrowed more heavily in July, increasing their debt primarily in a category that includes auto and student loans. The Federal Reserve said Friday that overall consumer...

MONTREAL - There haven’t been a lot of laughs on the road for the Montreal Impact this season. They need to change that soon if they hope to make the playoffs. After setbacks at home against Tor...

TORONTO - Five things to know about the much vaunted but secretive Avro Arrow fighter jet program that was scrapped in 1959: - The CF-105, known as the Avro Arrow, was a globally leading-edge intercep...