Category Archives: Canadian Press

The federal government’s intention to enact a statutory holiday aimed at remembering the legacy of Canada’s residential school system has drawn mixed reactions from Indigenous Canadians, w...

TORONTO - Buyers who have to provide personal information to purchase recreational pot online after legalization this fall should be able to rely on existing laws to protect their privacy but the issu...

Throughout her career, Aretha Franklin often returned to the nation’s capital for performances that at times put her in line with key moments of U.S. History. The “Queen of Soul” san...

Smoke isn’t the only way wildfires affect people and places far from the flames. Researchers are studying how blackened forests affect ecosystems and water quality far downstream just as hundred...

JASPER, Alta. - Smoke from wildfires that’s blanketing parts of Alberta does more than just irritate the eyes and throats of visitors to the province’s mountain parks - it obscures the spe...

FREDERICTON - The start of a new week marks a time for Fredericton to begin healing as a community, the city’s police chief said Sunday, as officers cleaned up a makeshift memorial dedicated to ...

Night peering through the stained-glass windows, the dancer preens like a burlesque black swan at what was once the Mackenzie Memorial Gospel Church in Stratford, Ont. It’s the SIN Burlesque Ero...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam’s faithful face fi...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s defence minister says he’s closing the country’s main personnel crossing with Gaza in response to recent violence along the frontier. Avigdor Lieberman says Sund...

CHENGANNUR, India - Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday, as rescuers searche...