Author Archives: The Canadian Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by "an external source," a shipping company said, suggesting anoth...

A Manitoba man faces charges after authorities there and in Ontario allege he was caught with millions of illegal cigarettes. The Manitoba government says the 44-year-old was stopped and arrested by O...

TERREBONNE, Que. - Quebec police have cancelled an Amber Alert, saying two girls who were missing from the Terrebonne area have been found safe. Police lifted the alert shortly before 7 p.m. -- four h...

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released fr...

LONDON - John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was...

NEW YORK - A man was fatally shot by police on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral Sunday after he began firing two semiautomatic handguns at the end of a Christmas choral concert, police ...

The largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history began Monday in Ontario and Quebec after the country received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend.The Canadian military is ass...

VANCOUVER - Researchers are aiming to "teach" a computer to recognize the sounds of resident killer whales in order to develop a warning system for preventing ships from fatally striking endangered or...

OTTAWA - Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died.He was 78.His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, whi...

MONTREAL - The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister J...