Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Drake has nabbed 12 nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards. Nominations for the rapper-singer, who cancelled three shows this week due to an ankle injury, include video, album/mixtape a...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Nova Scotia’s premier says he could not believe his eyes when he saw the damage from the powerful storm that pummelled much of Atlantic Canada over the long weekend. “When y...

OTTAWA - The chair of the Trudeau government’s influential team of economic advisers says the group is exploring an ambitious plan to create a national infrastructure “institution” t...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Hurricane Nicole roared across Bermuda on Thursday, pummeling the resort island with winds up to 115 mph that snapped trees and peeled off roofs before the storm spun away into ope...

TOKYO - An extensive blackout struck Tokyo on Wednesday, affecting government offices and halting trains in the Japanese capital just before the evening rush hour. Tokyo Electric Power Co., a utility ...

BEIRUT - An airstrike hit the biggest market on the rebel-held side of Syria’s Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and levelling buildings as rescuers were still sifting through the ...

GENEVA - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be “dangerous from an international point of view” if elected, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday, defiantly doub...

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Japanese aut...

PARIS - Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November’s attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak. Frank Berton and Sven Mary said they’ve de...

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 12 --- B.C. MOUNTIE SHOT IN ARM; SUSPECT SOUGHT A Mountie is recovering after being shot and injured while trying to stop a vehicle near Golden, B.C. on Tue...