Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - A former federal Green candidate disavowed by the party for her anti-Semitic views is on trial in Germany for publishing videos denying the Holocaust. Monika Schaefer ran unsuccessfully fo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Mohamed Ravalia thought his neighbours were out barbecuing on one of the first sunny summer days in St. John’s when he caught the scent of smoke in the air early Monday ...

NEW YORK - Drake officially owns the Billboard charts, where seven of his songs currently sit in the Top 10. All 25 tracks from Drake’s ultra-popular “Scorpion” album, released on Ju...

HALIFAX - The federal minister of immigration objected Monday to the new Ontario Tory government’s references to people claiming refugee status as “illegal border crossers.” Last wee...

OTTAWA - After waiting for half a year, Stephen Poloz appears ready to get back on his rate-hiking path this week. Recent signals from the Bank of Canada governor, combined with strong economic data, ...

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna, who is charged with assault, had his case put over for three weeks at a brief court hearing Monday. The 23-year-old closer was arrested in May in connection wi...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot visited children at a Virginia hospital wearing her iconic Amazonian armour costume from the superhero film. At Inova Children’s Hos...

OTTAWA - Greyhound Canada, for decades a critical link connecting the country’s small towns and isolated communities with bigger urban centres, is pulling away for good in the Prairies, B.C. and...

MCCOMB, Miss. - A Mississippi man stabbed his mother and grandmother in a federal government office Monday and was then shot to death by a security guard. Pike County Coroner Jason Jones told The Asso...

VICTORIA, Texas - A federal prosecutor says a “rabid hatred” of Muslims led a 26-year-old man to set fire to a Southeast Texas mosque. Prosecutor Sharad Khandelwal made the claim Monday du...