Category Archives: Canadian Press

SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan woman says she lost a finger after her ring got caught on a waterslide at one of the largest malls in North America. Claire Clark was celebrating her granddaughter’s t...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland acknowledged Tuesday that the football player who collapsed during practice and subsequently died did not receive proper medical care and the school must...

VANCOUVER - Smoke from British Columbia wildfires blanketed part of western Canada from Vancouver Island to central Alberta on Tuesday, prompting air quality advisories in both provinces. While much o...

LANGLEY, B.C. - A Christian university in British Columbia will no longer require students to adhere to a covenant forbidding sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The board of governors at Trinity We...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Power says an oil leak at its Tufts Cove generating station involved 19,300 more litres of oil than originally disclosed. The utility had previously said that an oil leak was dis...

ARDSLEY, N.Y. - Former New York City Ballet leader Peter Martins has been convicted of driving while impaired in the New York City suburbs. The Journal News reported on Tuesday that Martins was found ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government needs to make good on its promise to declare housing a “fundamental human right” under Canadian law as part of its forthcoming national housing stra...

BOGOTA - The exiled opposition leader accused by Venezuelan authorities of directing a failed plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro says the greatest threat to the embattled socialist leader ma...

Los Angeles’ subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday. The deployment of th...

NEW YORK - The latest efforts to disrupt the U.S. midterm elections through Facebook manipulation seem to be following a persuasion playbook refined by legitimate companies and organizations - but wit...