Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Pope Francis won’t be visiting Montreal, or anywhere else in Canada, in 2017. It was hoped that the Pope would visit the city next year as part of its 375th anniversary celebrations. ...

WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. The ruling upholds the decision of a lower...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 6 --- FAMILIES TO SPEND UP TO $420 ON FOOD: STUDY The typical Canadian family will spend up to $420 more on groceries and dining out next year, getting littl...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death and several others to prison terms in a case involving an alleged Iranian spy cell, a sign of the continuing tens...

OAKLAND, Calif. - There was a mortuary worker who dreamed of being a painter or photographer. A poet who texted her father Kurt Vonnegut lines. A music manager known for her love for nail art. They we...

OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agencies should destroy the data trails of innocent people they incidentally collect during terrorism investigations once the actual targets have been cleared of suspicion,...

OTTAWA - Supreme Court of Canada justices challenged Google’s lawyers Tuesday for arguing that the company’s own free speech rights are being compromised by a B.C. injunction ordering it t...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The lawyer for one of three people with ties to a British Columbia polygamous community says the prosecution has not met the burden of proof that his client intended to remove a 13-y...

PARIS - The man who served as France’s top cop during a series of bloody terror attacks became the nation’s new prime minister on Tuesday after Manuel Valls stepped down to focus on runnin...

CHENNAI, India - Hundreds of thousands of people thronged the southern Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday to honour their late beloved leader, Jayaram Jayalalithaa, a former film actress and popular po...