Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - With the global economy growing strongly, the Bank of England has turned more confident about Britain’s prospects and indicated it could raise interest rates in coming months - even in ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that she is opening preliminary probes into alleged crimes by police and security forces in the Philippin...

London’s newest museum attraction is greasy, smelly - and a glimpse at the hidden underside of urban life. The Museum of London on Thursday unveiled its latest display, a chunk of a 130-metric-t...

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - Chris Kelly has been named captain of Canada’s men’s hockey team at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Kelly is a veteran of 833 games and won a Stanley ...

MONTREAL - A 29-year-old man has died in hospital after he was shot during an apparent street fight in Montreal’s Rosemont district. Police say the shooting occurred just after midnight during a...

John Perry Barlow, an internet activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, has died. The digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a statement that Barlow died early Wednesda...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Former President George W. Bush said on Thursday that “there’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled” in the 2016 American presidential el...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - A verbal exchange between a Canadian and a Russian at the Pyeongchang Games has prompted an apology, of sorts, from Canada’s Olympic team. The Canadian Olympic ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justin Trudeau made his prime ministerial pitch to Silicon Valley on Thursday, and had a chance to push Toronto specifically as a place for Amazon’s second headquarters during a ...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 8 --- PM TRUDEAU TO MAKE TECH PITCH IN SILICON VALLEY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make a pitch for tech workers today during a visit to California&#...