Category Archives: Canadian Press

SANAMXAY, Laos - Authorities in Laos ordered closer monitoring of hydroelectric facilities as they investigate why a dam in the country’s southeast collapsed earlier this week, killing at least ...

LONDON - Paul McCartney has returned to the famous Liverpool club credited with being the birthplace of the Beatles. The 76-year-old played an exclusive performance Thursday at the Cavern Club - the c...

REDDING, Calif. - Firefighters battling a huge wildfire in Northern California kept it from doing more damage to the city of Redding but three smaller communities were in danger as flames closed in an...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, July 26 --- HUNDREDS ATTEND TORONTO VIGIL A group of young girls clung to each other Wednesday evening in Toronto’s Greektown as they mourned a friend and ...

HALIFAX - The mastermind and the enforcer of a sophisticated multimillion-dollar stock market scheme have been granted bail, a day after being sentenced to prison for conspiracy and fraud in one of th...

VICTORIA - A Vancouver businessman banned for life from entering the United States over his investments in American marijuana companies says he plans to seek a waiver that permits him to cross the bor...

TORONTO - The case of rock star Jacob Hoggard, who faces three sex-related charges, was put over to next month after a brief court hearing in Toronto on Thursday. Hoggard, the frontman of the band Hed...

TORONTO - Blayne Lastman, the son of former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, announced Thursday that he will not be seeking the city’s top job, ending weeks of speculation that he would try to follow ...

MONTREAL - Nearly 475 unionized CAE Inc. employees in Montreal return to work today after voting in favour of a new contract. Unifor Local 522 says its members voted 83 per cent this week to accept a ...

AMSTERDAM - Research suggests mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses among Indigenous people. Physicians in the province are seeing ...