Category Archives: Canadian Press

MOSUL, Iraq - Cloudy skies neutralized air power in Mosul on Thursday, Iraqi forces said, hampering their advance in the northern city, although they still faced deadly attacks by Islamic State milita...

OTTAWA - Some facts from anti-money laundering agency Fintrac’s annual report for 2015-16 tabled Thursday: Financial transaction reports received: 23,727,393. Disclosures of actionable intellige...

OTTAWA - The publisher of a small southern Manitoba family of weekly newspapers made an appeal for back-to-basics local reporting Thursday to a group of MPs examining Canada’s beleaguered news i...

VANCOUVER - Margaret Atwood says the University of British Columbia’s investigation of fellow author Steven Galloway was flawed and failed both sides, comparing it to the Salem witchcraft trials...

LONDON - The English Premier League has sold its television rights in China for $700 million in its biggest-ever overseas sale, a person familiar with the deal said on Thursday. Online video streaming...

CALGARY - Husky Energy says shifting ground is to blame for a pipeline burst in July that leaked crude oil into the North Saskatchewan River and jeopardized the drinking water of thousands downstream....

MONTREAL - Paul Byron is too busy scoring goals for the Montreal Canadiens to wonder what may have been had the Calgary Flames never put him on waivers. The speedy five-foot-eight, 160-pound winger, w...

VAL D’OR, Que. - The Quebec government must launch a public inquiry into allegations of police assault against aboriginal women in northern Quebec, a group of native women said Thursday. Despite...

OTTAWA - A Canadian soldier who was looking at ways to train the Jordanian military as part of Canada’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has died, the Department of Nationa...

JOHANNESBURG - A fuel tanker exploded in northern Mozambique as residents gathered around to buy fuel from the driver on Thursday, killing 73 people and injuring 110 others, Mozambican media reported....