Category Archives: Canadian Press

ROME - Food lovers and chefs in Italy and beyond are urging restaurants to serve up more pasta all’amatriciana in a move to support the quake-hit hometown of the hearty dish. The rustic food, ma...

TORONTO - The groundwork for Derek Drouin’s Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games was laid in 2013. The year after a disappointing London Olympics - when his bronze in high jumping was Canada̵...

YARMOUTH, N.S. - The high-speed ferry that travels between Nova Scotia and Maine was diverted from its route today to help a fishing boat that was taking on water. Bay Ferries says the CAT received a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Pacific Northwest tribe is travelling nearly 5,000 miles across Canada and the United States with a 22-foot-tall totem pole on a flatbed truck in a symbolic journey meant to galvani...

JOLIETTE, Que. - Citing an acute viral infection, Veronique Hivon dropped out of the Parti Quebecois leadership race Friday. Hivon suspended her campaign last week due to labyrinthitis, which is an in...

VANCOUVER - Three municipalities in British Columbia want a stake in any tax revenue that the federal government collects from the legalization of marijuana. Nelson, Duncan and Prince George put forwa...

MADISON, Wis. - The attorney for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the hit Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” filed a motion Friday seeking permission to perform extensive scienti...

PARIS - France’s top court has ruled that banning burkini swimsuits violates people’s fundamental rights, setting a legal precedent after a swimsuit crackdown that elicited shock and anger...

HALIFAX - Dozens of boot prints are burned into a boardwalk, vivid black scars that form part of a new memorial honouring tens of thousands of soldiers who left from the port of Halifax to fight in th...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The St. John’s Telegram - which calls itself the People’s Paper - used its front page Friday to blast what it says is “a huge lack of respect” for fema...