Category Archives: The Canadian Press
16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says
McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) - A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering...
Oct 11, 2025
Activists from Gaza-bound flotilla expected to return to Canada this weekend
The first of six Canadian activists aboard a flotilla that was detained by Israeli forces while attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has returned home. Indigenous rights activist Msk...
Oct 11, 2025
4 dead in shooting that injured others after homecoming football game in Mississippi, official says
LELAND, Miss. (AP) - Four people were killed in a shooting in a small town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, a state senator said Saturday. The shooti...
Oct 11, 2025
2 dead after shooting on school campus in Mississippi
LELAND, Miss. (AP) - Police in a small Mississippi town are investigating a shooting during the school's homecoming weekend that left two people dead. Both were killed on the school campus Friday nigh...
Oct 11, 2025
Right-hander Kevin Gausman gets Game 1 start for Blue Jays in ALCS against Mariners
TORONTO - It has become a familiar routine for the Toronto Blue Jays since securing the top seed in the American League on the final day of the season: rest, prepare and perform. It worked like a char...
Oct 11, 2025
A Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in Darfur, an aid group says
CAIRO (AP) - A shelling and drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a shelter in a besieged city in the Darfur region, killing at least 53 people, a doctors' group said Saturday. The onsl...
Oct 11, 2025
'Shovel Superman’': Alberta man uses vacation to help clean up floods in Taiwan
HUALIEN CITY - While many people like to spend their vacations on the beach or at resorts, Jaron Rosso Wiigs of Edmonton used some of his days off to shovel mud after a typhoon in Taiwan. When he arri...
Oct 11, 2025
Canada's first non-beating heart transplant could lead to shorter wait lists: UHN
TORONTO - A Toronto hospital says it transplanted a heart that stopped beating last month in a Canadian first that has the potential to substantially shorten the long wait for a donor. University Heal...
Oct 11, 2025
Mail, parcel delivery to resume as postal union begins rotating strikes
Kathryn Gallagher Morton is "absolutely thrilled" that Canada Post is at least moving. Being the owner of Maplelea, a small business that sells Canadian-themed dolls via its website, she said a majori...
Oct 11, 2025
Former Liberal cabinet minister says young people are hesitant to enter politics
OTTAWA - Sergio Marchi says when he asks students in his university course on politics how many of them are interested in a career in public life, he's surprised if two or three of them raise a hand. ...
Oct 11, 2025