Category Archives: Canadian Press

BERLIN - Emergency services were called to a landmark Hamburg church to fight a fire. All they found was a swarm of gnats. News agency dpa reports that Hamburg’s fire service said Tuesday it was...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least 15 people are dead after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital, police said Tuesday. The deat...

LONDON - Neighbours and acquaintances described the man who allegedly attacked a group of Muslim worshippers as an unemployed lout who was drinking heavily and making anti-Muslim remarks in the days b...

MIAMI - Forecasters say a tropical storm warning has now been extended further westward for a disturbance in the central Gulf and it now covers an area from High Island, Texas, to the mouth of the Pea...

OTTAWA - Amid the growing death toll of Canada’s ongoing opioid epidemic, there’s evidence of a correlating increase in the number of healthy human organs available for transplant. The age...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, June 20 --- SENATE BALKS AT SPLITTING BUDGET BILL The Senate won’t be splitting the Trudeau government’s budget bill to hive off the portion dealing wi...

TORONTO - The makers of Canada’s latest Heritage Minute say featuring the country’s acceptance of Vietnamese “boat people” in the short film was the ideal way to keep current e...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale plans to introduce a bill today to upgrade a list of Conservative anti-terrorism measures. It will include more robust oversight of the Canada Border Serv...

OTTAWA - The federal government has released a detailed itinerary for the upcoming royal visit by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to Canada’s north, eastern Ontario and the National Capital ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A marine shipping dispute is challenging the country’s constitutional obligation to its youngest province, as a newly released report finds federal subsidies for Marine ...