LONDON (AP) - Lawyers in Britain representing dozens of alleged victims - including three Canadians - of Mohamed Al Fayed, the former boss of Harrods, said Friday their clients assert that he was a "monster" who raped and sexually abused young women. Lawyer Bruce Drummond said three of Al Fayed's alleged vict...

TORONTO - Experts are raising questions about the need for the federal government's planned cap on international graduate students, and suggesting it may prompt some top talent to look elsewhere. Students attending master's, doctoral and postdoctoral courses were previously exempt from the overall cap on international ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Eby ready to take campaign bus on test drive A day before the official start, British Columbia's election campaign sees B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad and Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau speaking to municipal leaders, whi...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia provincial election campaign is expected to officially kick off Saturday, but party leaders have been vying for votes for months in the lead up to the Oct. 19 fixed election day. Here's a look at some of the issues that are expected to be front and centre over the next month and what th...

British Columbians are voting in the next provincial election on Oct. 19. The NDP is hoping to hold on to power, while those on the right are running in a new political landscape after the former Opposition BC United folded and its Leader Kevin Falcon placed his support behind the B.C. Conservatives. Here's a look at B...

VANCOUVER - A day before the official start, British Columbia's election campaign sees B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad and Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau speaking to municipal leaders, while NDP Leader David Eby is gearing up to get his campaign bus rolling. Eby spoke to local politicians yesterday at the Unio...

OTTAWA - MPs on the public safety and national security committee voted unanimously to launch an investigation into an alleged Russian ploy to dupe right-wing influencers into sowing division among Americans. A U.S. indictment filed earlier this month charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet...

OTTAWA - The head of Via Rail says a train delay over the Labour Day long weekend was an isolated incident. Mario Péloquin appeared in front of a parliamentary committee to answer to an incident that stranded passengers between Montreal and Quebec City for 10 hours as they ran out of food, water and working toil...

OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Canada next week after a planned trip in July was cancelled amid political turmoil in France. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a statement today that Macron will be in Canada Wednesday and Thursday after the leaders attend the United Nations General Assembl...

Health Canada has authorized Novavax's updated COVID-19 vaccine that protects against currently circulating variants of the virus. The mRNA vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, has been reformulated to target the JN.1 subvariant of Omicron. It will replace the previous version of the protein-based vaccine, which targeted the XBB...