Category Archives: Canadian Press

HAMILTON - Defensive back Craig Butler retired as a player from the Canadian Football League on Saturday and joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats staff as an assistant coach. The six-foot-one, 201-pound nat...

CARACAS, Venezuela - A prominent anti-government activist was barred from leaving Venezuela on Saturday for planned meetings with European leaders, dealing a setback to opposition attempts to rally in...

VENICE, Italy - The last time Israeli director Samuel Maoz came to the Venice Film Festival, he won the top prize with his first feature film. Then, his main feeling was shock. Eight years later he...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Seven girls died early Saturday when a fire gutted their dormitory at a high school in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the country’s education minister said. The cause of the fi...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been eyeing the possibility of charging a carbon tax of $25 per tonne - half of what the federal government has insisted must be in place by 2022 - according to ...

TORONTO - Piers Handling will be stepping down as director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of next year. Handling announced Saturday that 2018 would be his final year lea...

OTTAWA - When Ann Speers retired from her federal government job more than a year ago, she noticed something wrong with her bank account; she had been overpaid on her final paycheque. Several months a...

CAIRO - An international medical aid group has called on Libyan authorities to end arbitrary detention of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, slamming conditions inside detention facilities in the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani police say two gunmen targeting an ethnic party lawmaker after Eid prayers instead shot down two others, including a child, in the southern port city of Karachi. Police o...

BERLIN - Residents in two German cities are evacuating their homes as authorities prepare to dispose of World War II-era bombs found during construction work this week. About 21,000 people have been o...