Category Archives: Canadian Press

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Raymond Blake can still see his mother, a strong woman raising six kids alone after his father died, dissolve into tears as the schooner pulled away from their home ...

LONDON - Nicola Day’s flight to London will land just hours before Prince Harry is set to wed Meghan Markle in a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle, and she’s determined to not let jet...

MONTREAL - The youth wing of the Bloc Quebecois has become the latest group to withdraw its support for embattled leader Martine Ouellet, declaring Wednesday she’s not the one to bring the ...

TORONTO - The Winnipeg Jets and Vegas Golden Knights have intrigued Canadian hockey fans this post-season, if television ratings are any indication. So it’s not a stretch that the...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A barge that disappeared off the coast of Labrador six months ago has turned up bobbing in waters 3,000 kilometres away. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Ballyg...

HALIFAX - The first North Atlantic right whale of the season has been spotted in waters off eastern Cape Breton amid concerns from fishermen that measures meant to protect the endangered mam...

Canadian music icon Burton Cummings says he is recovering from several injuries he suffered in a car crash last Sunday in Los Angeles. In a lengthy Facebook post, the Winnipeg rocker and former frontm...

COPENHAGEN - The southern Estonian municipality of Kanepi has a cannabis leaf on its new flag - because that’s what its name means in Estonian. Andrus Seeme, mayor for Kanepi’s 2,500 souls...

TORONTO - Saturday’s nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will likely have a youthful charm and a Canadian helping run things behind the scenes, says a British royalty expert, af...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The international chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that chlorine was likely used as a weapon in the rebel-held northern Syrian town of Saraqeb in early February, the l...