Category Archives: Canadian Press
Logan Boulet Effect: Death of player in Broncos crash highlighted organ donation
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Hours after coming across the horrific scene at the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Bernadine and Toby Boulet still hadn’t seen their son Logan. The couple from Lethbridge, Alta....
Dec 25, 2018
Team Canada looks to defend hockey gold medal on home ice; starts Boxing Day
VICTORIA - It’s a Canadian Christmas tradition as enduring as gifts, gatherings and punch bowls of rum and egg nog. The world junior men’s hockey championship, which starts Boxing Day and ...
Dec 25, 2018
A look at the 10 nations competing at the 2019 world junior championship
The exhibition games are over and Canada is set to defend its gold medal when the puck drops on Boxing Day for the world junior hockey championship The top 10 junior hockey nations will face off betwe...
Dec 25, 2018
At least 27 dead after bus, truck collide in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo - A Congolese health official says at least 27 people are dead after a bus and a truck collided west of the capital, Kinshasa. Dr. Sylvain Yuma with the health ministry says the accide...
Dec 25, 2018
The Queen celebrates Christmas before annual speech
SANDRINGHAM, England - The Queen and other members of the Royal Family received cheers from a Christmas crowd when they arrived for a church service Tuesday on the grounds of one of the monarch’...
Dec 25, 2018
Militants attack Libya's Foreign Ministry, 3 killed
BENGHAZI, Libya - A suicide bomber targeted the entrance of Libya’s Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, killing three people, including a prominent militia leader, according to security offi...
Dec 25, 2018
Indonesia tsunami survivors remain jittery as deaths hit 429
SUMUR, Indonesia - Panicked residents, police and soldiers in this remote fishing village clobbered by a devastating weekend tsunami ran to higher ground Tuesday, shouting “Water is coming! Wate...
Dec 24, 2018
Japan stocks plunge, other Asia markets fall after US losses
BEIJING - Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trump’s criticism of the U.S. central bank. The Nikkei...
Dec 24, 2018
Death toll from attack in Afghan capital climbs to 40
KABUL - The death toll from an attack in the Afghan capital has climbed to 40, the Health Ministry said Tuesday, as police and rescue workers combed through the smouldering public welfare building whe...
Dec 24, 2018
Mexico: Helicopter crash claims Puebla governor, ex-governor
MEXICO CITY - A husband-and-wife political power couple who were the current and ex-governors of the central Mexican state of Puebla died in a Christmas Eve helicopter crash, officials announced. Mexi...
Dec 24, 2018