Category Archives: Canadian Press

Ottawa’s fall parliamentary session is a couple of weeks away and Canadians are already getting a preview of what could be the season’s main event: a scrap over the Liberals’ propose...

Canadian cyclist Michael Woods is turning heads in just his second Grand Tour event. The 30-year-old from Ottawa enters the final week of the Spanish Vuelta riding high in eighth place, holding a 33-s...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Utility companies apparently were warned well in advance about serious problems plaguing a doomed South Carolina nuclear reactor project. An independent analysis of the nuclear plant ...

TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. chief executive Jerry Storch says bringing the iconic department store brand to the Netherlands wasn’t his original plan, but feedback from local shoppers sugges...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Vietnam War is coming to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Museum in Springfield. Museum officials say the facility will host a preview of the latest documentary by Ken ...

OTTAWA - Carla Qualtrough wanted to go water skiing. There was no question in her mind that, despite having been born with a visual impairment, she’d be able to accomplish her goal - but she kne...

STILLWATER, N.Y. - The mayor of Stillwater, New York, has resigned following his arrest on child pornography charges. According to the Times Union (http://bit.ly/2eD7wCa ), Deputy Mayor Frank Tatum is...

PARIS - A Venezuelan political exile who proposed to his girlfriend during an audience with the Pope is basking in the wonder of his engagement in a romantic trip to Paris. Catholic Dario Ramirez stro...

TORONTO - Bob Beswick and captain Craig Hall of the Toronto Wolfpack have been nominated for player of the year in the Kingstone Press League 1. The two Toronto players are up against Joe Bullock of t...

BOGOTA - Colombia’s government and last remaining major rebel group signed a bilateral cease-fire Monday ahead of Pope Francis’ visit this week, an agreement seen as a significant step tow...