Category Archives: Canadian Press

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi’s governor will appoint the state’s agriculture commissioner to fill the Senate vacancy that will soon be created when veteran Sen. Thad Cochran retires, three...

TORONTO - Hospitals should step up their efforts to protect patient privacy by trying to generate less paper and ensure confidential files are shredded rather than recycled, a new study suggested Tues...

WASHINGTON - Government efforts to protect state and local elections from Russian cyberattacks in 2016 didn’t go far enough, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday as the pane...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired. Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territor...

MOSCOW - Nearly two dozen Russian diplomats expelled by Britain over the poisoning of an ex-spy arrived home Tuesday, while a scientist involved in the creation of the nerve agent said it could be man...

CAIRO - The sole candidate running against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has had two showcase campaign rallies in downtown Cairo. The first was a disaster. No one showed up except a few cam...

OTTAWA - A senior Correctional Service of Canada official is being called out by the federal public service watchdog for “gross mismanagement” over his handling of concerns over repeated a...

TORONTO - A 27-year-old Toronto woman is the victim of what police are describing as a murder-suicide in the city. Police say they were called to a condo building in the north end of the city on March...

HALIFAX - The sentencing hearing for a sailboat captain caught smuggling 250 kilograms of cocaine from the Caribbean to a Nova Scotia boatyard has been delayed yet again. Jacques John Grenier, facing ...

TORONTO - Canada’s financial consumer watchdog plans to expand its probe of business practices - which found that the country’s six biggest banks had “insufficient” controls in...