Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Serina Manek has been living in Leslieville for seven years, and has watched it go from a rough-around-the-edges area in Toronto’s east end, to one of the city’s most desirable n...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia may be known as Canada’s Ocean Playground, but the moniker hardly applies to Halifax harbour. Almost 10 years after the city spent $333 million to clean up its massive, inf...

Harvey’s filthy floodwaters pose significant dangers to human safety and the environment even after water levels drop far enough that Southeast Texas residents no longer fear for their lives, ac...

HOUSTON - The Rev. Mark Goring nears his parish community centre and the mounds of trash come into view. Shards of plywood and plaster are stacked atop heaps of black trash bags bulging with soggy fil...

MONTREAL - Death, palace intrigue and allegations of lies and corruption are at the centre of the highest number of Quebec byelections in more than 30 years. The Oct. 2 byelection in the Quebec City r...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s New Democrats are expected to use this week’s throne speech to broadly outline how they intend to follow through on their key election promise to get big mon...

MEXICO CITY - Negotiators have run into a series of early sticking points on nearly every major element considered key to achieving a new NAFTA agreement, according to sources who describe a dialogue-...

VENICE, Italy - Frances McDormand is a righteous fury - and a strong contender for an Oscar - in the witty, visceral and violent “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The actress wo...

LONDON - Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, will soon welcome a third child to the royal nursery. Kensington Palace officials announced Monday that the former Kate Middleton is pre...

LOS ANGELES - Wildfires forced thousands to flee their homes across the U.S. West during a sweltering, smoke-shrouded holiday weekend of record heat. The fires Sunday caused evacuations in Glacier Nat...