Category Archives: The Canadian Press
'Fool's errand': Why the Exxon Valdez looms large over northern pipeline debate
VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Colum...
Nov 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV calls on Lebanese leaders to be true peacemakers as he seeks to bring message of hope
BEIRUT (AP) - Pope Leo XIV challenged Lebanon's political leaders on Sunday to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside, as he sought to give Lebanon's long-suffering people a message of ho...
Nov 30, 2025
UNAIDS chief urges Carney not to cut foreign aid, global health funding
OTTAWA - The head of the United Nations' HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government's planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding. "My message to Prime M...
Nov 30, 2025
Netanyahu submits request for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial
TEL AVIV (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country's president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges - seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly ...
Nov 30, 2025
Death toll in Hong Kong apartment complex blaze rises to 146 as the city mourns
HONG KONG (AP) - The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings, while a steady stream of people placed...
Nov 30, 2025
Police search for shooter after 4 are killed, 3 of them children, in shooting in California
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - Authorities in California appealed to the public for tips, even rumors, as they searched Sunday for a suspect in the killing of three children and an adult during a mass shooti...
Nov 29, 2025
Investigators deployed to scene following a train derailment near Cranbrook, B.C.
CRANBROOK - An investigation is underway after multiple cars of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed about 16 kilometres east of Cranbrook, B.C. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says...
Nov 29, 2025
Investigators deployed to scene following a train derailment near Cranbrook, B.C.
CRANBROOK - An investigation is underway after multiple cars of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed about 16 kilometres east of Cranbrook, B.C. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says...
Nov 29, 2025
Man dead following late-night shooting in Surrey, police say
SURREY - Surrey police say a man is dead after a late-night shooting in the city. Police say officers responded to calls of a shooting before midnight on Friday, and when they arrived, officers found ...
Nov 29, 2025
Canadian watched childhood home burn as Hong Kong blaze killed more than 100 people
Toronto resident Paul Chow was devastated when the apartment where he grew up made international news after a raging inferno tore through seven highrise towers in Hong Kong, leaving more than 100 dead...
Nov 29, 2025