Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Police fatally shot an armed man who had been threatening another person in the Halifax area on Saturday morning, officials said. Officers had been responding to a weapons complaint at a hom...

TORONTO - The Ontario Liberals promised new legislation on Saturday that would reduce the province’s debt, saying they were presenting the only realistic financial plan between the three major p...

Top Canadian soccer officials were at Saturday’s Champions League final in Kyiv, mixing business with pleasure as they pressed their case for the so-called unified 2026 World Cup bid. Canada, th...

TORONTO - The third and final televised debate ahead of Ontario’s June 7th election will offer voters on Sunday one last chance to size up the three main party leaders side by side as they vie t...

MONACO - Daniel Ricciardo took a dominant pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday, softening the blow for Red Bull after his teammate Max Verstappen failed to even start qualifying, having...

WASHINGTON - Joshua Holt, who travelled to Venezuela from Utah in 2016 to marry a Spanish-speaking Mormon woman but soon found himself jailed and later branded the CIA’s top spy in Latin America...

KAMPALA, Uganda - A police spokesman says 22 people are dead after a speeding passenger bus struck a tractor and then a beer truck on its way to Uganda’s capital. Emilian Kayima says in a statem...

MULTAN, Pakistan - Police in Pakistan say they have killed six “terrorists” behind a bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore last year. Police spokesman Salim Khan says counterterrorism ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, gained strength as it approached the northern Gulf Coast, emptying out beaches in Florida ahea...

SRINAGAR, India - At least four suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle with government troops Saturday after crossing into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the ...