Author Archives: The Canadian Press

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a "freedom zone" for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in ...

NEMI, Italy - A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the luck...

SAN RAMON, Calif. - Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger...

LONDON - Christie's says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical wo...

TERRACE, B.C. - Health officials in northern British Columbia deny allegations they mismanaged the treatment of a pregnant Indigenous woman or used racial stereotypes that affected her care and led to...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is introducing restrictions on access to used police gear in reaction to last year's mass shooting by a gunman who wore an RCMP uniform and drove a replica police ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Asked how he spent the last 12 months, Rod Merritt doesn't mince words. "It sucked," sneers the retiree, the contempt on his face obscured by a black mask emblazoned with the words, "I...

OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities are keeping a watchful eye on European investigations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of blood clots following inoculations, but say there is no ev...

NEW YORK - Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss. More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March - more than quadruple from the week bef...

NEW YORK - The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Jakarta, Indonesia this summer, the Sundance Institute and XRM Media said Thursday. The Sundance Film Festival: Asia will launch sometime in late sum...