Category Archives: Canadian Press

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A federal judge on Monday put a nationwide hold on Trump administration rules that allow more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control. U.S. District Judge ...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May made a frantic last push Monday to swing lawmakers’ support behind her seemingly doomed Brexit deal, warning that its defeat risked scuttling the U.K....

Singapore’s foreign minister warned Monday of “consequences” if neighbouring Malaysia continues to escalate a dispute over waters claimed by the city state. Addressing Parliament on ...

MOSCOW - The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday. T...

PARIS - Anti-government protesters and political rivals of President Emmanuel Macron criticized a sweeping “letter to the French” he issued after two months of weekly demonstrations, sayin...

BANGKOK - Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand’s hazy capital Bangkok handing out face masks and preparing to se...

PARIS - Two French policemen went on trial Monday on charges of gang-raping a Canadian tourist at Paris police headquarters nearly five years ago. The officers, both members of the BRI anti-gang force...

Five stories in the news for Monday, Jan. 14 --- TRUDEAU CABINET SHUFFLE COMING TODAY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to shuffle his cabinet today to account for the sudden resignation of Nova Sc...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejigged his cabinet Monday, adding two new faces and a new portfolio - and rewarding competence and friendship. However, it was his decision to move Jody Wilson...

TEHRAN, Iran - A decades-old Iranian Boeing 707 military cargo plane reportedly carrying meat from Kyrgyzstan crashed on Monday while trying to land west of Iran’s capital, killing 15 people on ...