Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s Liberal government got some good pre-election news today: The auditor general says the province actually had a surplus last year. Audited financial statements, rele...

TORONTO - Wednesday marks one month since a gunman went on a shooting rampage on a bustling street in Toronto’s Greektown, leaving two dead and 13 injured. Yet for these survivors, the trauma re...

OTTAWA - Six months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy prowess was pummelled by a disorganized state visit to India, his chief opponent is heading to New Delhi to try to “...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus. Kindia, a 12-year-old female, gave birth to a female calf late Friday night. The zoo says the species is...

BEIJING - Multibillion-dollar China-financed projects in Malaysia have been cancelled because they aren’t needed and will saddle the country with an unsustainable amount of debt, Malaysian Prime...

BERLIN - A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York City for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany early Tuesd...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 21 --- FEDS TO UNVEIL ANTI-POVERTY PLAN TODAY A new plan to help low-income Canadians will set a lofty goal of lifting more than two million people past the p...

HALIFAX - A new review of Nova Scotia’s forestry practices is calling for fundamental changes to the way trees are harvested in the province. The report by University of Kings College president ...

VANCOUVER - Yousif Attia wasn’t exactly a typical teenager. He had always been fascinated by birds, and he wanted to participate in a local Christmas bird count - an annual event where people ac...

Monday’s Games (All Times Eastern) — MLB American League Toronto 5, Baltimore 3 Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 5 Cleveland 5, Boston 4 Tampa Bay 1, Kansas City 0 Oakland 9, Texas 0 Seattle...