Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Catholics have a role to play in continuing to urge Pope Francis to apologize for the role the church played in running Canada’s residential schools, Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister C...

HALIFAX - The federal government is shifting the snow crab fishing season, cutting the number of traps in the water and permanently reducing the speed limit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in a desperate ...

TORONTO - A Facebook executive admitted Wednesday that the tech giant “has a lot to answer to” in the wake of a scandal that allegedly saw user data mishandled. Speaking to about 1,500 mar...

PROSPECT, Va. - Carnival Cruise rolled into a small Virginia town this week on the hunt for a local teen and his coveted Snapchat handle @CarnivalCruise. The company surprised 15-year-old Darian Lipsc...

OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled its action plan on official languages Wednesday, funded with an extra $500 million over five years that will go toward a host of services for minority-language...

The United States needs to show more flexibility toward resolving “core” issues if it expects to get an agreement on the controversial trade deal sometime this spring, before looming polit...

QUEBEC - The man who entered a Quebec City mosque last year and fatally shot six Muslim worshippers in an attack that shook the entire country sought forgiveness Wednesday as he denied being a terrori...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Tens of thousands of Saudi students studying abroad will each be receiving $2,000 from the government to support their education. King Salman approved on Wednesday a recommendat...

WASHINGTON - Still angry about the budget deal he signed last week, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of using the Pentagon budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico, despi...

TORONTO - Imagine the fallout if the NHL was hacked and its star players - think Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid - had their home addresses, phone numbers and other personal informat...