Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ragged, growing caravan of migrants resumes march toward US
TAPACHULA, Mexico - A growing caravan of Honduran migrants streamed through southern Mexico on Sunday heading toward the United States, after making an end-run around Mexican agents who briefly blocke...
Oct 21, 2018
Ferry collides with yachts, runs aground near Isle of Wight
LONDON - A ferry collided with several yachts and ran aground while trying to berth at a harbour on the Isle of Wight off southern England on Sunday, officials and the ferry company said. The accident...
Oct 21, 2018
Exit poll: Polish populists lead local votes, support down
WARSAW, Poland - The governing populist party, which has repeatedly clashed with European Union institutions, was the top vote winner in local elections Sunday, according to an exit poll, but it was h...
Oct 21, 2018
Russians denounce Trump's intended nuke treaty withdrawal
MOSCOW - A top Russian diplomat says President Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw from a landmark treaty on nuclear weapons is a perilous move. A Russian senator in turn said the U.S. leaving ...
Oct 21, 2018
Israeli leader delays demolition plan for West Bank hamlet
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he has decided to postpone the planned demolition of a West Bank hamlet to allow time for a negotiated solution with its residents, in...
Oct 21, 2018
Eastern China coal mine accident kills 2, leaves 18 trapped
BEIJING - Two people died and 18 were trapped in a coal mine in eastern China on Sunday after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, state broadcaster China Central Television reported. The s...
Oct 21, 2018
B.C. voters getting ballots on proposal to change electoral system
VANCOUVER - British Columbians will soon start receiving mailed ballots for a chance to vote in a referendum that could change the provincial voting system, but the experience of other provinces sugge...
Oct 21, 2018
Three dead in three-vehicle crash in Antigonish, Nova Scotia area
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - Police are investigating a multi-vehicle accident that claimed three lives in Nova Scotia’s Antigonish County. RCMP say the three-vehicle crash occurred late Saturday afternoo...
Oct 21, 2018
Brooks Koepka has golf's top ranking with win in South Korea
JEJU ISLAND, Korea, Republic Of - Brooks Koepka is golf’s new No. 1 after winning the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges on Sunday by four strokes. Koepka, who displaced Dustin Johnson for the world’s...
Oct 21, 2018
2 winning tickets share Saturday night's $7 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - Two winning tickets were sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. One ticket was purchased in Ontario and the other in Quebec, with each being worth $3.5 mil...
Oct 21, 2018