Category Archives: Canadian Press

PARIS - France’s newly elected president has started taking on his new role, working on the attitude expected of a statesman - a new world for a man with little political experience who long rem...

BEIJING - Stuck in a Bangkok jail with a deportation order against her, Chen Guiqiu waited with dread over what seemed certain to come next. A Thai immigration official showed her surveillance video o...

ESTILL, S.C. - The numbers are horrific: At least four students, ages 11 to 14, victimized by as many as 30 kids in one of the largest single cases of sexual assault reported on U.S. school grounds. A...

The Georgia school district said it was investigating the baseball players for “misbehaviour” and “inappropriate physical contact.” What it didn’t reveal was that a young...

It’s a heady time four years in the making for Steve Sumarah and the Carleton Ravens football program. Seven Ravens were selected Sunday in the CFL draft, including receiver Nate Behar fifth ove...

SURREY, B.C. - With just one day left before the British Columbia election, the New Democrats’ campaign was left spinning its wheels - literally. At an election stop in Surrey on Monday, the NDP...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says a new research lab that aims to get the most of out the country’s finite wireless spectrum will eventually help Canadians avoid more dropped calls, spotty re...

LOS ANGELES - A wet and wild spring storm that swept through Southern California set rainfall records, dumped hail on an awards show red carpet and delivered up to 10 inches (25 centimetres) of snow i...

MINSK, Belarus - Ukraine has banned action film actor Steven Seagal from entering the country for five years. Seagal, an American, was given Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin last year i...