Category Archives: Canadian Press

SOMERSET WEST, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius was taken from prison to a public hospital on Thursday with chest pains and will stay overnight for observation. “He’s fine now,” Pistor...

TORONTO - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova will miss next week’s Rogers Cup in Toronto due to an injury. Organizers say she is suffering from “pain in her left forearm.” Toronto&#...

A group of mayors from Canada and the U.S. has dropped its challenge to a decision allowing an American city to draw water from the Great Lakes, saying it has secured an agreement to improve the revie...

WALTHAM, Mass. - The actor who played Luke Duke in the 1980s television show “The Dukes of Hazzard” is facing indecent assault and battery and drug charges in Massachusetts. The Middlesex ...

In the world’s current political climate, Mohammed Ahmed has become accustomed to hassles at airport customs counters. So when he was scheduled to run the 3,000 metres in the prestigious Doha Di...

TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced several measures Thursday in response to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths in recent weeks. Here is a list of what the city says it is doing: - Speedin...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust, who quit politics because of controversy surrounding his alleged role in a government agency’s sale of Rona Inc. shares to a U.S...

WARSAW, Poland - Young people have gathered for a major annual music festival in Poland that celebrates diversity and tolerance - and which has faced pressure recently from the conservative government...

HEMMINGFORD, Que. - The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier. What used to be an unmarked...

WASHINGTON - A leaked transcript of a Donald Trump phone call shows the president’s private comments about trade with Canada, and suggests he had an overwhelmingly positive attitude about the no...