Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government secretly gave RCMP security officials the authority to tap telephone calls without court oversight during the Cold War, newly unearthed archival documents show. The sur...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 15 --- PM TRUDEAU TO MEET INDIGENOUS LEADERS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to sit down with indigenous leaders today, the one-year anniversary ...

OTTAWA - The federal board that resolves thorny labour disputes says its work is being compromised because it is short-handed, despite having warned the Liberals more than a year ago about the urgent ...

NAGATO, Japan - The leaders of Russia and Japan move to Tokyo on Friday to wrap up a two-day summit on an economic co-operation agreement and a protracted territorial dispute that has prevented their ...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A New Jersey man who police say was driving drunk while behind the wheel of a backhoe is facing charges. Fifty-six-year-old William Campbell was charged Tuesday with driving wh...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The 24-year-old driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children was speeding about 20 miles per hour over the 30 mile-per-hour limit, police testified Thursday, dr...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling slaughter of nine black church members who had welcomed him to their Bible study, a devastating crime in a country that was alread...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A harmful chemical from an industrial plant leaked into the water supply in Corpus Christi, forcing school closures, disrupting commerce and causing a run on bottled water at s...

BOSTON - Having spent nearly three decades crusading for relaxed marijuana laws in Massachusetts, Bill Downing is greeting the state’s new recreational marijuana law with a mix of satisfaction a...

BEIRUT - Weeping, hobbling on crutches or dragging suitcases, hundreds of survivors of a devastating government bombardment and siege left the last sliver of opposition-held Aleppo on Thursday, an eva...