Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - One of two British sailors accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Halifax-area military base is still in hospital, delaying their trial yet again. Simon Radford’s lawyer told Nova...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A search for a German pop singer who went overboard from a cruise ship off Newfoundland and Labrador has been called off. Maritime Forces Atlantic says after 80 hours of searc...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Florence exploded into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds up to 140 mph (220 kph) and water that could w...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cultural official Shahram Karami told the official IRNA n...

WARSAW, Poland - Human rights activists have held a silent protest in support of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike in a Russian prison, at a major international conference in Poland...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia politician whose grandparents fled the Holocaust says she is disheartened that graffiti using Nazi imagery was found in several places near her Halifax-area riding. NDP MLA Cla...

HOUSTON - The winner of the 1995 Miss Universe crown has died following a long-term illness. KTRK-TV cites a statement by the family of Chelsi Smith that says the pageant winner died Saturday at 45 ye...

OTTAWA - While postal workers waited Monday to find out whether they’ll be on picket lines later this month, some of Canada Post’s clients weren’t taking chances on whether there wou...

Four stories in the news for Monday, Sept. 10 --- CANADA POST WORKERS VOTE ON STRIKE MANDATE Canadians could find out as early as today whether mail carriers and plant workers at Canada Post have vote...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford took the unprecedented step Monday of invoking a rarely used charter provision known as the notwithstanding clause to push ahead with his plan to slash the size of ...