Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Ed Fast is recovering from a stroke. The former international trade minister suffered from the medical emergency Saturday at his home in Abbotsford, B.C. His office says he is...

MOSUL, Iraq - She survived the first stone that struck her, then the second. One of the Islamic State group’s fighters bent down and pressed his fingers to the side of her neck to check her puls...

TORONTO - Two survivors of a notorious Indian residential school want the courts to ensure they aren’t forced to foot the government’s legal bills if they lose a complex case involving hid...

BEIRUT - The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 11:45 p.m. Syria’s U.N. ambassador is hailing “the liberation of Aleppo” and rejecting allegations that his country̵...

BEIRUT - First came the distress calls from doctors in underground shelters and morgues. Then residents under relentless bombardment in the few remaining blocks under rebel control in Aleppo began pos...

OTTAWA - The chair of the House of Commons trade committee says he hopes Parliament can ratify the Canada-EU free trade deal this week before rising for the holiday break. On Wednesday, the committee ...

PHILADELPHIA - Scores of ones and zeroes stolen from addresses mounted on the homes of Philadelphia residents have been returned. The news website Billy Penn reports that a white trash bag containing ...

TORONTO - Dr. Gregory Taylor is retiring as Canada’s chief public health officer after a little more than two years on the job. Taylor, 61, told The Canadian Press his last day as the country...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Philip Riteman survived Auschwitz and Dachau, but had nowhere to go after the Holocaust until pre-Confederation Newfoundland took him in. On Wednesday, seven decades after he ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s prospective cabinet is now stacked with friends of Canadian oil, with vocal proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline his picks to run key posts in the State and Energy ...