Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Some Canadian universities are gearing up for the new academic year by training staff on how to deal with opioid overdoses and equipping them with naloxone kits. The University of King’...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has raised its interest rate for the second time in less than two months in an effort to adjust to the unexpected force of the country’s economic momentum. Wednesday&...

MEXICO CITY - In the middle of Mexico City, there’s an outdoor market so massive you’d need a helicopter to witness its entirety: 90,000 employees, 62,000 daily truck deliveries, supplying...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - Six young Nova Scotia men who admitted to exchanging intimate images of at least 20 girls without their consent treated the victims as “objects for the accused’s own se...

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept. 6 --- LATEST NAFTA TALKS WRAP WITH WORD OF PROGRESS The latest round of NAFTA negotiations have wrapped up in Mexico City with the three countries declarin...

MONTREAL - Air Transat has launched an airlift to get all its travellers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of hurricane Irma. The Montreal-based airline said late Tuesday it was sendi...

TORONTO - Canada’s biggest banks are poised to benefit from a surprise interest rate hike on Wednesday, with Royal Bank of Canada’s (TSX:RBC) chief executive pegging the revenue bump at up...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 6 --- NEGOTIATORS REPORT PROGRESS AT NAFTA TALKS: The latest round of NAFTA negotiations has wrapped up with the three countries saying they’ve m...

MEXICO CITY - The latest round of NAFTA negotiations wrapped up Tuesday with the three countries declaring they have made progress, and committing to work through the harder negotiating issues in time...

OTTAWA - The unfolding North Korean nuclear crisis is exposing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to international criticism that it is too soft on nuclear disarmament - and too close to the sa...