Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Undeterred by a ban on edibles in Canada’s initial rollout of legal recreational marijuana, food companies have found a way to cash in on the buzz by catering to post-consumption cravi...

CALGARY - Andre Tourigny will replace Gilles Bouchard as head coach of Canada’s under-18 hockey team this summer. The head coach of the Ottawa 67’s, Tourigny got the job after Bouchard lef...

PHUKET, Thailand - Thai authorities on Friday evening suspended the search for missing tourists who were on a boat that sank during a storm off the southern resort island of Phuket, as the death toll ...

TORONTO - Investigators clung to the steep edge of a ravine on Thursday, some on their hands and knees, as they scraped through heaps of dirt and brush searching for more human remains near a home in ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A 31-year-old inmate who died in a Newfoundland and Labrador prison last weekend wrote a letter to the province’s Human Rights Commission days before his death, appealin...

LONDON - Eugenie Bouchard’s four-match winning streak is over - and so is the Canadian’s run at Wimbledon. The 24-year-old native of Westmount, Que., dropped a 6-4, 7-5 decision to No. 17 ...

HUDSON BAY, Sask. - Via Rail Canada says two locomotives and a baggage car on a train going from Winnipeg to The Pas in northern Manitoba derailed overnight in a remote area of east-central Saskatchew...

JERUSALEM - As Syrian government forces press on with a furious offensive against rebel-held areas in the country’s south, Israel is quietly acknowledging that President Bashar Assad’s for...

UKHIYA, Bangladesh - Tucked away in the shadows of her family’s bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world. She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her h...

AMESBURY, England - In this normally pleasant town of 10,000 residents a stone’s throw from the mysterious Stonehenge monument, the new reality is sinking in: Novichok, again. Four months had pa...