Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald is apologizing for defending Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K. during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Barr, who hired Macdonald to write on her original...

CALGARY - A quick look at the draft hosting plan presented to Calgary city council Tuesday by Calgary 2026 on a possible bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: Total cost: $5.23 billion...

DETROIT - A federal safety agency is recommending that all new motorcycles built for road use in the U.S. have anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control as standard equipment. The National Tra...

SEATTLE - Voters in Washington state will be asked this fall to do what state and federal leaders have been reluctant to: charge a direct fee on carbon pollution to fight climate change. If the ballot...

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil - A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic was defeated Tuesday at a meeting in Brazil of the International Whaling Commission, amid a clash between countries...

QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - The Canadian Coast Guard says crews are working carefully to release gas that accumulated inside a barge carrying a fishing lodge that beached after it broke away from its anch...

TORONTO - The Canadian government and several airlines have issued travel advisories because of hurricanes and tropical storms churning towards the U.S. east coast, Caribbean and Hawaii. Ottawa urged ...

LAS VEGAS - An unprecedented legal move by MGM Resorts International to sue surviving victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting took another unusual turn Tuesday when the casino-operator offered to make ...

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian court convicted and gave a second life sentence to imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman on Tuesday for a 1992 car bombing in the capital that killed 25 people and inju...

VANCOUVER - A collection of wigs worth more than $350,000 that was intended for cancer patients at BC Children’s Hospital has been stolen from a store in Vancouver. Police say at least 150 wigs ...