Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Time is running out for the Vancouver Whitecaps to clinch a post-season berth, but the team’s goalkeeper remains optimistic. After all, the ‘Caps (9-9-7) have taken home eight ...

OXFORD, N.S. - A large sink hole that swallowed up a towering spruce tree in a Nova Scotia park appears to be growing by the day, and sparking concerns about a nearby community centre. Yellow caution ...

LIMA, Peru - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1-magnitude struck eastern Peru, close to its borders with Brazil and Bolivia, early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 24 --- FORD BACKS SCHEER AT TORY CONVENTION Ontario Premier Doug Ford threw his political weight behind federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer during a spe...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Friday viewed some of the work produced by an Australian filmmaker charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party r...

OTTAWA - A number of supporters who backed Maxime Bernier’s oh-so-close bid for the Conservative leadership say they want nothing to do with his plan to start a new party - but one source says t...

OTTAWA - Peter Harder, the Liberal government’s representative in the Senate, has rebuffed a call to testify next month in a Montreal man’s lawsuit over his lengthy detention in Sudan. Har...

HONOLULU - Hurricane Lane weakened Friday as it headed toward the Hawaiian islands, but it still brought torrential rains that immersed a city in waist-deep water and forced people to flee flooding ho...

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - A small Saskatchewan city devastated by a fatal bus crash involving its junior hockey team welcomed a trophy Friday that fans no doubt hoped would one day be hoisted by one of their ...

HALIFAX - After a bombshell day for the Conservative party, many members attending the annual Tory convention in Halifax expressed quiet relief on Thursday that the long-expected divorce of maverick M...