Category Archives: Canadian Press

JASPER, Alta. - Smoke from wildfires that’s blanketing parts of Alberta does more than just irritate the eyes and throats of visitors to the province’s mountain parks - it obscures the spe...

FREDERICTON - The start of a new week marks a time for Fredericton to begin healing as a community, the city’s police chief said Sunday, as officers cleaned up a makeshift memorial dedicated to ...

Night peering through the stained-glass windows, the dancer preens like a burlesque black swan at what was once the Mackenzie Memorial Gospel Church in Stratford, Ont. It’s the SIN Burlesque Ero...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam’s faithful face fi...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s defence minister says he’s closing the country’s main personnel crossing with Gaza in response to recent violence along the frontier. Avigdor Lieberman says Sund...

CHENGANNUR, India - Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday, as rescuers searche...

LONDON - The co-founder of the fashion brand Superdry said Sunday he has donated 1 million pounds ($1.28 million) to a group seeking a new referendum on Britain’s departure from the European Uni...

MONTREAL - When Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault recently dismissed the Montreal mayor’s popular plan for a new subway line, he didn’t feel it necessary to even pay lip serv...

Saturday’s Games (All Times Eastern) — CFL Toronto 24, B.C. 23 Edmonton 40, Montreal 24 — MLB American League N.Y. Yankees 11, Toronto 6 Baltimore 4, Cleveland 2 Oakland 7, Houston 1...

Saturday’s Games (All Times Eastern) — CFL Toronto 24, B.C. 23 Edmonton 40, Montreal 24 — MLB American League N.Y. Yankees 11, Toronto 6 Baltimore 4, Cleveland 2 Oakland 7, Houston 1...