Category Archives: Canadian Press

LISBON, Portugal - Authorities say a 12-month-old baby and two foreign women were among the 13 people killed when a huge oak tree crashed down on an outdoor religious festival in Portugal’s Made...

JOHANNESBURG - Five years after South African police shot dead 34 striking mine workers, recalling police brutality under apartheid, rights groups say no one has been prosecuted and miners’ livi...

TORONTO - An electrical fire at Toronto’s landmark CN Tower was extinguished Wednesday morning after firefighters took turns climbing into an antenna mast to deal with smouldering wiring and ins...

Hayley Wickenheiser’s reasons for helping develop video game technology to treat concussions are close to her heart. The four-time Olympic gold medallist in women’s hockey remembers the di...

NEW YORK - Daniel Craig’s 007-era will die another day. After months of gossip and denials, Craig on Tuesday night confirmed to Stephen Colbert on the “Late Show” that he will indeed...

DENVER - The former radio host who lost a groping lawsuit to Taylor Swift in federal court this week said he realizes the case was in the pop star’s favour, but he had no interest in backing dow...

WASHINGTON - Negotiations start Wednesday for an update to the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement. This glossary of negotiating terms helps explain understand some of the underlyi...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 16 --- NAFTA RENEGOTIATION TALKS BEGIN TODAY Canada’s lead minister for the renegotiation of NAFTA has arrived in Washington for the first round of t...

HAGATNA, Guam - The threatened missile attack by North Korea on Guam has prompted calls for peace from the island’s indigenous people, who are weary of yet another conflict after enduring centur...

VICTORIA - Joe Carr’s most memorable total solar eclipse had ties to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. He stayed in a tent in the Sahara Desert supplied by Gadhafi to house dedicated eclip...