Category Archives: Canadian Press

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It has been called a “boondoggle” - by the man in charge. The Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject, a massive dam and powerhouse harnessing the lower Churchill River ne...

WASHINGTON - Chrystia Freeland was not happy. With trilateral NAFTA talks having been on hiatus for most of the summer, the foreign affairs minister was in Berlin, barely one full day into a week-long...

ROCKYVIEW, Alta. - Police say a woman was killed by her own dog in Rocky View, Alta., on Saturday evening. RCMP say the boxer-pitbull cross initially attacked a three-year-old girl, leaving her with s...

MONTREAL - Along Montreal’s Saint-Laurent Boulevard are rows of greystone and red-bricked buildings dating from the early 20th century, many of which used to house businesses owned by first-gene...

MIAMI - Before and after a hurricane, Ace is the place. And Home Depot and Lowe’s. And many other hardware and building supply outlets. Not surprisingly, these companies plan for storms such as ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Catastrophic flooding from Florence spread across the Carolinas on Sunday, with roads to Wilmington cut off by the epic deluge and muddy river water swamping entire neighbourhoods m...

JOHANNESBURG - The usual suspects - Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and Darth Vader - roamed the halls at Comic Con Africa. There were also a few African characters on display: Kwezi, Captain South Africa an...

JERUSALEM - A Palestinian assailant on Sunday fatally stabbed an Israeli settler outside a busy mall in the West Bank. The victim was identified as Ari Fuld, a U.S.-born activist who was well-known in...

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria held its first municipal elections since 2011 on Sunday, amid tensions with the country’s self-administered Kurdish region, which refused to allow polls. Candidates campa...

LONDON - British police are asking the public to help identify two men suspected of stealing the ashes of an elderly woman’s husband along with cash, bank cards and jewelry. Police released imag...