Category Archives: Canadian Press

SALALAH, Oman - On the eastern edge of the Arabian peninsula, a region disappears under sky-wide blankets of fog as the desert blooms green. This is the Omani monsoon: a phenomenon that draws hundreds...

BRAINTREE, Mass. - A 53-year-old Massachusetts hospital worker stepped forward Thursday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history - a $758.7 million Powerball prize - after breaki...

OTTAWA - The Senate is asking the Federal Court to block the release of documents in a labour dispute where one of its top officials faces racism allegations. The allegations come from Darshan Singh, ...

MONTREAL - A four-day urban rodeo that is promising to bring a bit of the Wild West to Montreal’s Old Port is also expected to draw daily protests from groups denouncing the event as animal crue...

LISBON, Portugal - A Portuguese publisher has withdrawn exercise books for children showing girls in the kitchen doing domestic chores while boys assemble a robot, which the government complained rein...

WASHINGTON - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have signed a confidentiality agreement designed to prevent leaks during the NAFTA negotiations, with a list of rules to protect details of the offer...

OTTAWA - Judy Foote twice continued working to represent her Newfoundland and Labrador constituents while fighting gruelling battles with breast cancer, but it was a health risk to her children that p...

COPENHAGEN - The headless torso of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, whose death after taking a trip on a homemade submarine remains a mystery, was found naked and police are now searching for her clothes, D...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania couple says Jesus showed up in their daughter’s sonogram picture, easing their concerns after two other children were born with birth defects. Alicia Zeek and ...

TORONTO - A call from an Ontario teachers’ union to remove the name of Canada’s first prime minister from public elementary schools was rejected by the province’s premier Thursday as...