Category Archives: Canadian Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on Florida officials to formally pardon four young African-American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman nearly 70 years ago. The F...

WASHINGTON - Christmas at Vice-President Mike Pence’s official residence literally jumps out of the pages of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Every room on the main floor of the Na...

NEW YORK - The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based...

BENI, Congo - What’s an election campaign without shaking hands with potential voters? Congolese candidates in the thick of an Ebola outbreak, now the second deadliest in history, are finding ou...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - The counting of ballots has started in Madagascar’s runoff presidential election, after the polls closed to end the generally peaceful voting Wednesday. There was a re...

LOS ANGELES - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Alexander Salazar, following an allegation of sexual misconduct with a child in the 1990s, official...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is on another rescue mission at Manchester United, this time as manager. The former striker who became a United great by conjuring up important goals typically as a substitute - m...

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 19 --- APPEAL COURT TO RULE IN B.C. TERROR CASE British Columbia’s Appeal Court is scheduled to release a decision today on a couple whose guilty ver...

WINNIPEG - Razak Iyal still wakes up in the middle of the night feeling the icy winds on Christmas Eve two years ago when his life drastically changed. “It comes into my dreams all the time. I a...

WASHINGTON - Living alongside the United States has been likened to sleeping with a twitching, grunting elephant - a political animal that’s now on the verge of a full-blown, delirious fever dre...