Author Archives: The Canadian Press

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday March 6, 2021. There are 884,086 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 884,086 confirmed cases (29,977 active, 83...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday March 6, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 76,108 new vaccinations administered for a total of 2,329,622...

TORONTO - Radio and television personality Dick Smyth, whose booming commentary filled Canadian airwaves for decades with hot takes on the day's topics, has died at 86. His daughter Tracy Smyth said h...

DHARMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama, the 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, was administered the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday at a hospital in the north Indian hill town of Dharm...

JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Historical Society is honouring several scholars and groups, including a commission that designed a new state that voters adopted in November. The society presented aw...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 7:30 p.m. Alberta's chief medical health officer says there are 341 new COVID-19 cases in the province in the previous 24 hours,...

BRANTFORD, Ont. - Walter Gretzky's family thought the end was coming quickly in the middle of February. The father of hockey's greatest player had suffered a serious hip injury, and after battling Par...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Dozens of Orthodox Christian faithful held up wooden crosses and sang Church hymns outside of Cyprus' state broadcaster on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of the country's controve...

OTTAWA - A newly released audit report shows that difficulties with the judicial warrant process at Canada's spy agency - an issue that made headlines last summer - stretch back at least nine years. I...

YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces in Myanmar again used force Saturday to disperse anti-coup protesters, a day after a U.N. special envoy urged the Security Council to take action to quell junta viole...