Category Archives: Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES - Madonna is pirouetting back into the director’s chair. MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman says Tuesday that the pop music icon will direct a film based on ballet ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador’s Supreme Court has commuted the sentence of a second woman serving a prison sentence for what she said was a miscarriage. Mayra Veronica Figueroa Marroqu...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The former student charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school last month remained silent in court Wednesday and had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf as poli...

NEW YORK - Joy Behar of “The View” apologized Tuesday for suggesting mental illness was behind claims by people that Jesus Christ talks to them, in remarks made on her show last month abou...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has declared that the drought afflicting Cape Town and other parts of the country is a national disaster. The government announcement on Tuesday allows officials to more ea...

TORONTO - David Johnston is now part of a select group of former Canadian governors general honoured at the highest levels of sport. U Sports, Canadian university athletics’ governing body, anno...

Montreal’s iconic Mount Royal Park, the three-headed hill in the centre of the city that offers panoramic views of the island, has become the latest flashpoint in the battle over the role of the...

MEXICO CITY - Forget the worm at the bottom of your bottle of mescal. Mexican environmental inspectors have found whole boas and iguanas stuffed into bottles of mezcal at a market in the southern stat...

TORONTO - Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews is inching closer to a return to the Toronto lineup. When that will be remains anyone’s guess. The 20-year-old took part in his second straight full ...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is contributing $250,000 to a Cannabis Education and Awareness Fund and seeking members of the public to be part of an advisory committee on how the money is...