Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - In some versions of a story July 5 about Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Vekselberg had hired Michael Cohen as a consultant. It was t...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. - In a campaign stop that was both political and personal, President Donald Trump targeted Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday in a bid to get more Republicans elected to the Senate but...

VANCOUVER - Travis Lulay knows how isolating it can feel for an injured football player when he sits on the sidelines. Athletes spend a lot of time and effort getting ready for their team, so not bein...

CALGARY - Eight seconds is synonymous with rodeo, even if its origins are hazy. That time interval is unique to rodeo in sport. But how was it determined that someone should ride a bucking bull or bro...

HALIFAX - The Crown says it will oppose the release of a man charged with aggravated sexual assault and choking to overcome resistance after a woman said she was attacked in a home in Halifax. Sem Pau...

PARIS - French director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9 1/2-hour masterpiece “Shoah” bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and P...

OTTAWA - A Salvadoran woman and her two daughters who fled their home country after allegedly suffering extortion and rape at the hands of members of the notorious MS-13 gang are among several parties...

Eight stories in the news for Thursday, July 5 --- PROBE NEEDED INTO SAUDI USE OF CANADIAN ARMS, GROUPS SAY Some of Canada’s most prominent human rights and arms-control groups are demanding the...

CALGARY - Six years after it all began, Filipe Masetti Leite is still in the saddle and planning a new adventure. Leite, 31, who immigrated to Canada from Brazil when he was a teenager, began his orig...

LAVAL, Que. - Former Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso received a four-year prison term on Thursday following his conviction on fraud and corruption charges. A jury recently found Accurso guilty ...