Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - More Canadians are relying on food banks to feed themselves, a report released Tuesday suggests. The report by Food Banks Canada says last March some 863,492 people turned to a food bank, a 1...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontari...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand military leaders said Wednesday they had almost completed the evacuation of more than 700 tourists and residents from a small coastal town, two days after a power...

SAITAMA, Japan - While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubbe...

EIN GEDI, Israel - A multinational group of swimmers swam seven hours through the salty, soupy waters of the Dead Sea on Tuesday in a bid to draw attention to the environmental degradation of the fabl...

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 15 --- TRUDEAU HEADS TO CUBA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Cuba today for the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister to the country in ...

OTTAWA - A group of young scientific researchers has drafted an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing concern that current environmental assessments and regulatory reviews lack ̶...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Trudeau arrives in Cuba today, the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister in almost two decades. It is the first step in the Liberal government’s week-long bid...

ATHENS, Greece - Drawing a broad lesson from the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders need to pay attention to people’s very real fears of economic di...

NEW DELHI - India’s government said Tuesday it will use indelible ink to mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks as authorities struggle to deal with the bedlam caus...