Category Archives: Canadian Press

RAFINA, Greece - The cries for help pierced the choking smoke. Dozens of people bobbed in the sea, forced by the vicious flames into the water. Children held onto adults, and people who couldn’t...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - On Sunday, Vladimir Guerrero will become the first position player from the Dominican Republic inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and only the third player from that...

OTTAWA - Canada’s foreign affairs minister says a meeting with Mexico’s president-elect has cleared the haze about diving back into free trade talks between Canada, the United States and M...

BERLIN - Five female musicians accuse organizers of an Austrian classical music festival of not acting on sexual abuse complaints they made for years against its artistic director, according to an ope...

CALGARY - A crime-scene-type tool is being used by an Alberta university to help investigators looking into the cause of wildfires, arsons and oil spills. Gwen O’Sullivan of Mount Royal Universi...

WASHINGTON - Cher, composer Phillip Glass, country music star Reba McEntire and jazz legend Wayne Shorter will be honoured for lifetime achievements in the arts at this year’s Kennedy Center Hon...

TORONTO - The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says this cake isn’t for kids. The centre’s Cybertip.ca program is warning parents that an app called Cake - Live Stream Video Chat is a ...

ATLANTA - Singer Bobby Brown will receive a proclamation to build a domestic violence shelter in Atlanta in honour of his late daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown. City of South Fulton Mayor Bill Edwards a...

HALIFAX - Dave Innes was a strapping 18-year-old gunner with the Canadian Airborne Regiment when he broke his back in five places. Training for a deployment to war-torn Bosnia in April 1990, the young...

Earlier this month, the RCMP threw a retirement party in St. John’s, N.L., for a Labrador retriever named Luke. As the saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and as cannabis l...