Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Changes to Canada’s arms export policy to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of human rights abusers won’t mean an end to a controversial contract with Saudi Arabia, Fore...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government stumbled into a shutdown at midnight as a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal, protesting the return o...

BEIRUT - Syrian state-run media said Thursday a rare U.S. strike on government-backed troops in eastern Syria killed and wounded dozens of tribal fighters, calling it a new effort “to support te...

DALLAS - A gunman who mortally wounded a suburban Dallas police officer likely killed a second man before barricading himself in an apartment and randomly firing his weapon during the standoff, author...

In Jim Crow America, it’s no wonder that Jack Johnson was the most despised African-American of his generation. The first black boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Johnson humiliated white...

TORONTO - John Valorzi, a tough-talking, big-hearted 32-year veteran of The Canadian Press whose boundless enthusiasm, fearsome work ethic and exacting standards helped to shape an entire generation o...

VANCOUVER - The chief justice of British Columbia’s Supreme Court says he is frustrated by the federal government’s “failure” to appoint judges, and is calling on Ottawa to urg...

HUALIEN, Taiwan - Rescuers in Taiwan continued their search for survivors in a dangerously tilted building Thursday, more than a day after it was damaged in an earthquake that shook the island’s...

PYEONGTAEK, Korea, Republic Of - Vice-President Mike Pence is trying to counter North Korean “propaganda” around the Winter Olympics with his own symbolism and rhetoric, shining a spotligh...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A Bangladesh court sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Thursday to five years in prison on corruption charges. The conviction means that Zia, the archrival of the curren...