Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced Friday he is releasing a new solo album called “Secret Path.” Inspired by the harrowing story of a 12-year-old First Nations boy who...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Irving Oil says it has finalized its acquisition of the Whitegate refinery near Cork, Ireland. Irving joined with the Houston-based energy manufacturing and logistics company, Phill...

GENEVA - Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is now facing a bribery case, and one of his former vice-presidents was fined more than $1 million in a separate investigation into kickbacks. The FIFA ethi...

OTTAWA - “Right now we screen people for security reasons. We ask individuals what their income is. So why would we not ask some simple questions with regards to whether you believe in the equal...

TORONTO - A First Nations leader says she is profoundly grateful after a trip to northern Ontario with Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie to celebrate his “very haunting” new project that...

COPENHAGEN - In a Sept. 9 story about Facebook allowing postings of a 1972 photo of a naked, screaming girl after a napalm attack in Vietnam, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the social ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The sound of car horns rang out over part of St. John’s harbour as residents of a small, grief-stricken community offered their thanks to crews who for days searched wat...

LONDON - MasterCard is being sued for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion) on behalf of British consumers for allegedly charging excessive fees on millions of transactions over a 16-year period. The suit...

PARIS - A failed car bombing in the heart of Paris was hatched by a group of French women, including one once engaged to men who had already killed in the name of the Islamic State group, France’...

LISBON, Portugal - A passenger train derailed Friday in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, killing at least four people, including an American tourist, and injuring 48 others who were taken to...