Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has revealed the secrets of giving a speech while wearing a weighty crown, in unusually candid comments in a new documentary on her 1953 coronation and the ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - It was a good night for women at the Critics’ Choice Awards, which honoured women-centred stories like “Big Little Lies,” ”The Handmaid’s Tale̶...

LUBEC, Maine - A fishing-industry building on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places is half-submerged in waters near a Canadian island, and conservationists fear it could disintegrate before l...

Eight stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 12 --- ANOTHER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR QUITS MMIW INQUIRY The inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has lost another executive director. Th...

VANCOUVER - Terry Lake, the former British Columbia health minister who oversaw the declaration of a public-health emergency amid the deadly fentanyl crisis, is urging more research on the effects of ...

VICTORIA - The deaths of two sisters at Christmas have left many people confused, vulnerable and grasping for answers about why their young lives were cut short, a funeral service heard Friday. More t...

TORONTO - For decades, a Toronto man took advantage of a man with limited intelligence, treating him like a servant, taking his disability cheques and eventually stealing his baby in order to raise th...

LONDON, Ont. - The mayor of London, Ont., says the city has failed to recognize in the past that LGBTQ rights are human rights, but that it is time to take action against hatred and unfairness. Mayor ...

ANKARA, Turkey - In a story on Jan. 12 about a travel advisory warning Turks travelling to the United States, The Associated Press quoted a Turkish Foreign Ministry regarding an incident at Ohio Unive...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel took a significant step toward ending Germany’s lengthy political impasse by securing a preliminary agreement Friday to enter formal coalition talks with a cent...