Author Archives: The Canadian Press

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $32 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. It means the jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 12 will grow to approximately $40 million. T...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. There are 644,348 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 644,348 confirmed cases (81,670 active, 545,...

More than two months after Alex Trebek's death, fans of "Jeopardy!" finally got the chance to say goodbye. A video tribute to the host closed Friday's episode of the quiz show, the final one that Treb...

NEW YORK - Journalists were manhandled, threatened and had their equipment stolen or damaged by supporters of President Donald Trump during this week's riot at the U.S. Capitol. The attacks, including...

Twitter banned President Donald Trump's account Friday, citing "the risk of further incitement of violence" following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Twitter has long given T...

ALERT BAY, B.C. - Two northern resident killer whale families brought along a baby as they returned for the first time in 20 years to their traditional winter foraging grounds in British Columbia wate...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal as he disclosed a list of high-tech weapons systems under development, saying the fate of relations...

LOS ANGELES - Growing more and more frail, Tommy Lasorda looked on from a suite at Globe Life Field in Texas, watching as the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the World Series in Game 6 against the Tampa ...

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the "Up" documentaries series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic "Coal Miner's Daughter" and the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough,...

OTTAWA - International students are being offered a new work permit by the federal government in a bid to convince more to settle here permanently. Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says former stu...