Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Press reported in a story about wildfires in British Columbia on Aug. 20 that a senior scientist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control said pregnant women should take precaut...

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is introducing legislation to honour Aretha Franklin posthumously with the Congressional Gold Medal. The “Queen of Soul,” who ...

When Nicole Luchanski returned home with a silver medal from the last women’s baseball World Cup, she tucked the shiny piece of hardware away in a drawer. The veteran second baseman hasn’t...

A Toronto resident visiting family in the Indian state of Kerala says major floods in the region left him and his relatives largely confined to a home without power for days as flooded roads prevented...

MONTREAL - An initiative to market milkweed for the benefit of monarch butterflies - and the farmers in Quebec and Vermont who grow it - is getting a boost from a Canadian parka company that is renewi...

TORONTO - Six of the 15 people injured in a bombing west of Toronto in May are suing the restaurant where the incident took place, their lawyers said Tuesday, alleging the business’s owners and ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans confused over the new banknotes popping out of their ATMs on Tuesday resorted to using calculators and conversion charts to figure out the value of each bill as the co...

TORONTO - Given Toronto FC’s up-and-down season, perhaps it’s no surprise that the team’s flight home from San Francisco was cancelled Sunday. The team had been scheduled to land in ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government lifted the veil on what it billed Tuesday as a bold plan to strike a blow against poverty across Canada by the end of the next decade - but the plan is absent any new s...

HALIFAX - The Archbishop of Halifax says the Roman Catholic church is in crisis and there is an urgent need for change. Archbishop Anthony Mancini has condemned new reports of sexual abuse by priests,...