Category Archives: Canadian Press

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The New York gravestone of Susan B. Anthony is thickly encrusted with “I Voted” stickers on an Election Day that could put America’s first female president in the W...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Sandy Silver, who took the Yukon Liberals from third-party status to a majority government in Monday’s territorial election, was being coy the morning after. “Does it ...

SURREY, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed $45 million in federal funding for a new building at the Surrey, B.C., campus of Simon Fraser University to advance research and innovation i...

WASHINGTON - We’ll know soon enough who won. We already know the prize: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentless campaigning and racially loaded rhetor...

WINNIPEG - An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg may have been exposed to the Ebola virus after a tear in a protective suit was noticed during decontamination. Ebol...

LONDON - The latest on world reaction to the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 3:30 a.m. South Korean media say U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to maintain a strong U.S. mil...

WASHINGTON - Republicans held onto their slim Senate majority Wednesday, a stinging blow to Democrats in a night full of them. Democrats had been nearly certain of retaking control but saw their hopes...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Republicans won control of governors’ offices in Missouri, New Hampshire and Vermont on Tuesday, picking up a trio of previously Democratic seats in their quest to expand t...

LOS ANGELES - The marijuana legalization movement scored its biggest victory yet Tuesday as voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, making the drug fully legal in the...

WASHINGTON - Republicans retained their lock on the House for two more years early Wednesday as GOP candidates triumphed in a checkerboard of districts in Florida, Virginia and Colorado that Democrats...