Category Archives: Canadian Press

ORLEANS, Mass. - Over 3,000 miles from the trenches and battlefields of the Western Front, where many hundreds of thousands had already died, residents of Orleans, Massachusetts, were enjoying a typic...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner after courts turned down appeals that the state parole board improperl...

NEW YORK - Amazon poked fun at the early glitches it saw with Prime Day, though it said shoppers still found plenty to buy. Analysts, meanwhile, saw other things Amazon could have done better, like di...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A P.E.I. woman has been charged in connection with the deaths of two infants following a yearlong investigation. The major crime unit of the Charlottetown Police Services says the 39-y...

CINCINNATI - The author of novels such as “The World According to Garp” and “The Cider House Rules” that examine the complexities of sexual differences and other social issues ...

OTTAWA - A civil liberties group is urging the Canadian government to end the “unjust and immoral” imprisonment of Monika Schaefer, a German-Canadian woman on trial in Germany for publishi...

SUTHERLANDS RIVER, N.S. - It’s been called a 38-kilometre death trap, a treacherous stretch of Nova Scotia highway that in the last decade has seen hundreds of accidents, multiple fatalities and...

HONOLULU - Hawaii tour boat operators plan to continue taking visitors to see lava, but will follow the Coast Guard’s revised policy and stay farther away after an explosion caused molten rock t...

TOKYO - The European Union and Japan signed a landmark deal on Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on products they trade. The ambitious pact signed in Tokyo runs counter to President Donal...

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, July 17 --- MPs AGREE TO SUMMER STUDY OF ASYLUM SEEKERS The House of Commons immigration committee has agreed to meet at least twice before early August to study ...