Author Archives: The Canadian Press

NEW YORK - A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, "Young Man Holding a Roundel," fro...

Corky Lee, a photojournalist who spent five decades spotlighting the often ignored Asian and Pacific Islander American communities, has died. He was 73. Lee died Wednesday in New York City's Queens bo...

NEW YORK - ABC News President James Goldston said Thursday that he will leave the network at the end of March, after seven years of leading the news division. The low-profile Goldston leaves at a time...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Country music superstar Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Reefs organization is helping to install an artificial reef off of Florida's Atlantic coast. The organization and other marine gro...

NEW YORK - Netflix is once again the top contender at the GLAAD Media Awards with 26 nominations, snapping up film nods for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "The Prom," comedy series nominations for "De...

Montreal police say they have arrested a suspect after an officer was injured when a traffic stop turned violent. Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant says the injured officer is recovering in hospital and his ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The police chief of Ohio's capital and largest city was forced out Thursday after the mayor who hired him said he'd lost confidence in the chief's ability to make needed changes to th...

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech are already assuming Canada will agree its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain six doses instead of five and are using that to project how many vials it will send Canada in the...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - An Idaho man who rode to fame on TikTok after casually singing "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac and drinking cranberry juice while longboarding will have a symbol of his success on displ...

OTTAWA - The federal government intends to make Jan. 29 a day to honour victims of the deadly 2017 attack on a Quebec City mosque. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcement Th...