Author Archives: The Canadian Press

HILLSBURN, N.S. - The aerial search for five fishermen who were working on a scallop boat when it sank in the Bay of Fundy has been suspended until Sunday, and the ground search has been called off in...

Canada surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as infections continued to surge while the vaccine rollout reached its final province. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim th...

JACKSON, Miss. - Former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, a Democrat who pushed to strengthen public education in one of the poorest states in the U.S. and to improve race relations across the nation, ...

URBANA, Ill. - A documentary about a University of Illinois scholar from China who was abducted and killed two years ago is now playing in virtual theatres. Director Jiayan "Jenny" Shi said she wanted...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least. Pauli...

MOSCOW - Russia said Saturday it will return an Orthodox icon presented to the Russian foreign minister in Bosnia, a gift that has triggered a protest from Ukraine. The presiding Serb member of Bosnia...

KABUL - Five rockets were fired at a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Saturday, but there were no casualties, NATO and provincial officials said. The rockets hit Bagram Airfield, said Wahida Shahkar,...

SYDNEY, Australia - Sydney's northern beaches will enter a lockdown similar to the one imposed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March as a cluster of cases in the area increased to 41. Fro...

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden's transition team expressed frustration Friday with the level of co-operation they're getting from political appointees at the Department of Defence, sayin...

PARIS - A modeling agent associated with disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 years old. Jean-Luc Brunel was arrest...