Category Archives: Canadian Press

UKHIA, Bangladesh - For six hours he hid in an upstairs room, listening to the crackle of gunfire and the screams of people being slaughtered outside his Myanmar home. With every footstep that drew ne...

GENEVA - The Swiss division of J.P. Morgan “seriously breached” anti-money laundering rules relating to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, Switzerland’s financial market regul...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis prayed Thursday for a merciful final judgment for Cardinal Bernard Law, presiding over the funeral rites for a man who epitomized the Catholic Church’s failure to pro...

HALIFAX - A jury has found Christopher Garnier guilty of punching and strangling Nova Scotia police officer Catherine Campbell, rejecting his claim that the off-duty officer died accidentally during r...

LONDON - Britain’s Kensington Palace has released two official photos of Prince Harry and his fiancee, Meghan Markle, to mark the couple’s engagement. One of the photos is an intimate blac...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Defence Secretary Jim Mattis chose an unusual site Thursday to begin a pre-holiday tour of military bases, urging troops on this Navy base to set a good example for p...

HALIFAX - Almost a year after former soldier Lionel Desmond killed his family and then himself in rural Nova Scotia, an official response shedding light on the tragedy is near. The province’s me...

TORONTO - This holiday season, cocktail hour could really suck for the straw industry. That’s because some establishments are ditching plastic straws as public backlash grows against the ubiquit...

Environment Canada’s chief climatologist has compiled his top weather stories of 2017 - a year which David Phillips says was marked by unusually long periods of conditions that just wouldn’...

It was the year of too much - too wet, too dry, too hot, too cool. “It wasn’t a typical Canadian kind of year, where if you don’t like the weather out your front door, look out your ...