Category Archives: Canadian Press

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Aug. 18 ___ BRAZILIAN POLICE SAY U.S. SWIMMERS WERE NOT ROBBED: Brazilian police said Thursday that swimmer Ryan Lochte and U.S. teammates were not robbed a...

SHUBENACADIE, N.S. - RCMP say a single-car crash on a Nova Scotia highway led to eight other crashes. It started over the noon hour Thursday, when a 46-year-old man lost control of a Ford Freestyle an...

WASHINGTON - The National Gallery of Art has returned a 200-year-old drawing to the heirs of an Austrian woman who had to sell it during World War II and later died in the Holocaust. “A Branch w...

MEXICO CITY - The government’s human rights agency is accusing federal police of executing at least 22 people during a confrontation with suspected cartel criminals last year and then rearrangin...

JACKSON, Miss. - A Texas lawyer accused of making up fake clients to sue BP after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill said after his acquittal Thursday that the government’s case against him ̶...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada’s Meaghan Benfeito has won her second medal of the Rio Olympics, capturing bronze in the women’s 10-metre platform event on Thursday. Benfeito of Laval, Que., finis...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada’s Andre De Grasse won the silver medal in the men’s 200-metre final at the Rio Olympics on Thursday night. The 21-year-old sprint star from Markham, Ont., finished ...

Kris Chung knew he had to help when he first read about an unspeakable choice facing an Ontario father who could only save the life of one of his two ailing three-year-old twin daughters. Chung was in...

VANCOUVER - Overdose deaths in British Columbia linked to illicit drug use continue to climb in 2016, with far more incidents being linked to the dangerous opioid fentanyl. While deaths across the pro...

TORONTO - Three CFL officials will work in upcoming NFL exhibition games. Edmonton native Justin McInnes will serve as a line judge Thursday night when the Oakland Raiders visit the Green Bay Packers....