Category Archives: Canadian Press

SYDNEY, Australia - Lou Richards, one of the first superstars in Australian rules football, has died, his former club said Monday. He was 94. Richards played for Collingwood from 1941-55. He was induc...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - The newly elected leader of Hamas paid tribute in Gaza on Monday to Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel, his first appearance in the new role and a sign of the gro...

Nicki Minaj is putting some fans on scholarship. After a fan asked the hip-hop star if she would pay his college tuition on Twitter on Saturday night, Minaj agreed to pay fans’ school costs - on...

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian newspapers published the names Monday of 82 Chibok schoolgirls set free three years after being kidnapped by Islamic extremists, but they remained behind closed doors and the...

HALIFAX - The Progressive Conservatives committed $40 million to mental health services in Nova Scotia on Monday, saying the Liberals have failed to address a deepening crisis that is seeing people co...

BONN, Germany - Despite uncertainties about whether the United States will remain committed to the Paris climate accord under President Donald Trump, envoys convened talks Monday in Germany on impleme...

LOS ANGELES - Film hit “Beauty and the Beast” and Netflix newcomer “Stranger Things” were the night’s big winners with two trophies apiece as MTV partied with its Movie &...

TORONTO - Caring for aging parents costs Canadians $33 billion a year in direct out-of-pocket expenses and time off work, a new study by CIBC says. The report also says that number will only increase ...

Five stories in the news for Monday, May 8 --- REINFORCEMENTS DEPLOYED IN QUEBEC FLOOD FIGHT Additional Canadian military personnel have been deployed in Quebec’s vast flood zone to help exhaust...

BEIJING - A gas leak in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 people, local authorities said Monday. The leak happened on Sunday morning when miners were working in the shaft of the mine in Youxi...