Category Archives: Canadian Press

BERLIN - A German court has dismissed a television comedian’s appeal of a ruling that prohibits him from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....

WASHINGTON - The United States intensified its financial pressure on Iran on Tuesday, slapping anti-terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing busi...

TORONTO - Hec Crighton Trophy winner Ed Ilnicki and two-sport athlete Temitope Ogunjimi are among the eight nominees for the 2018 BLG Awards, given annually to the top male and female U Sports athlete...

TORONTO - Ontario’s chiefs of police are again sounding alarm bells about the impending legalization of recreational cannabis, saying federal funding for police operations may not go far enough ...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That h...

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was ordered Tuesday to spend 30 days in jail for staging an unsanctioned protest in Moscow and resisting police, charges he dismissed as unlawful. Nav...

BERLIN - Germany’s foreign minister says Russia has granted entry to the World Cup for a German journalist who exposed systematic doping in Russian athletics, reversing a decision last week that...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Anthony Bourdain is pushing back after another controversy over potentially offensive Canadian nicknames. The celebrity chef’s CNN show, “Parts Unknown,” air...

WATERLOO, Ont. - The thorny issue of compensation at Hydro One reared its head on the Ontario election campaign trail Tuesday, with the Liberal premier calling raises for the company’s boar...

WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales rose at a solid pace in April, a sign that consumers may be rebounding from weak spending earlier this year and driving stronger economic growth. Retail sales increased ...