Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A 15-year-old girl is facing a charge of attempted murder after a Halifax police officer was stabbed while responding to a report of a stolen truck. The girl and a 15-year-old boy allegedly ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Jill Oland’s house in upscale Rothesay, N.B., is dry, but her family is staying elsewhere: Her street is cut off and she doesn’t want her children crossing through poten...

TORONTO - James Paxton lifted his arms in triumph and hugged each of his Seattle teammates after no-hitting the Blue Jays on Tuesday night. And as he left the field, he held up his forearm - tattooed ...

CORNER BROOK, N.L. - A lovestruck Michigan teen’s daunting Twitter bid to snag free airline tickets to see his Newfoundland girlfriend has been given new life. C.J. Poirier’s bid for 530,0...

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. reported Wednesday that its quarterly profit rose 21 per cent as cost cuts and booming sales in some markets offset the toll from higher U.S. incentives. January-March profi...

WARSAW, Poland - Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the United States 40 years ago as a sex offender awaiting sentencing, says he views the #MeToo movement as “collective hysteria&...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Yemen’s Shiite rebels fired ballistic missiles at the Saudi capital on Wednesday, according to the rebels and the Saudi military, which said its air defence forces interce...

LOS ANGELES - Meghan Markle’s road to royalty ran through Hollywood. The American actress set to marry Prince Harry May 19 spent her formative years in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Hollywood...

A 2-year-old English mastiff led astray by an escape-prone hound dog is happy to be home, but still stinks after being found stranded in muck at a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado. Gidget’...

OTTAWA - The federal government still intends to do away with subsidies to fossil fuel companies, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday - even as Ottawa prepares to put cash on the tab...