Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAINT-SIMON, N.B. - There has been another crustacean caper on the East Coast. Police say thieves stole “a large quantity of lobster meat” in New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula on Fri...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s president appeared to escalate a dispute with the United States that has helped foment a Turkish currency crisis, claiming Tuesday that his country will boycott U.S.-ma...

TAOS, N.M. - A judge’s decision to allow the release of an extended family accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico prompted a political uproar Tuesday by prominent R...

PINEVILLE, N.C. - A manager at an office supply store in North Carolina has been fired after a pregnant woman shopping there was confronted about what she was concealing beneath her shirt: “Twin...

COPENHAGEN - Masked youths torched dozens of cars overnight in Sweden and threw rocks at police, prompting an angry response from the prime minister, who denounced an “extremely organized”...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s inaugural committee pushed back hard last summer on questions about whether the unprecedented $107 million budget for the event was fraught with cost overruns and mis...

HALIFAX - Emera Inc. is pulling out of the troubled Cape Sharp Tidal turbine project in the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia Power’s parent company announced its decision in a statement released Monday...

NEWCASTLE, Australia - The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court Tuesday to serve his 1-year sentence in home detention rather t...

HONG KONG - A Hong Kong pro-independence activist decried Beijing’s rule over the city as modern-day colonialism in a speech Tuesday to a foreign journalists’ association that defied the C...

BEIJING - China blamed “anti-China forces” on Tuesday for the growing criticism of Beijing’s policies in a far western region where large groups of ethnic Uighurs are being detained ...