Category Archives: Canadian Press

ROME - In Italy’s general election campaign, Rome’s uncollected garbage has become fodder for politicians - and at least one pig. The capital’s dirty streets, lined with brimming-ove...

VILNIUS, Lithuania - One of the heaviest drinking nations in the world is facing a severe hangover. Lithuania’s new liquor law has increased the legal drinking age from 18 to 20, banned alcohol ...

LOS ANGELES - In another newsroom shake-up at the Los Angeles Times, veteran Chicago journalist Jim Kirk was named editor in chief Monday to replace Lewis D’Vorkin, whose short tenure was marked...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - For the Koch brothers and their powerful donor network, the trouble with President Donald Trump isn’t what he’s doing. It’s how he’s doing it. Huddled at...

LONDON - This winter, a daily drip of grim stories from Britain’s health care system has triggered a flood of alarm. An 81-year-old woman with chest pains died while waiting four hours for an am...

HALIFAX - A wayward seal pup that was struck by a car after wandering onto a road two times in Cape Breton is munching on fish and recovering at a wildlife shelter outside Halifax. Hope Swinimer of Ho...

NEW ORLEANS - A red wagon decorated as a shrimp boat with nets extending out from either side carried a waving 2-year-old dressed as a shellfish being pulled by his parents who wore white rubber shrim...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A man accused of plotting an attack on a federal medical facility in Texas asked a judge in December to deport him instead of sending him to prison, saying he didn’t deserve to ...

CONCORD, N.H. - Looking to strike a balance between ice-free roads and clean waterways, public works departments around the country are working to cut their salt use in winter by slathering the roadwa...

TORONTO - Coffee chains and restaurants aren’t the only businesses under pressure from Ontario’s minimum wage hike - marijuana companies say the higher provincial pay rate is driving up th...