Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A firefighter has won compensation after enduring abuse and equipment tampering at a Halifax naval base because he is gay. The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal says the unidentifi...

WARSAW, Poland - Taking a toy from a bear can be dangerous, especially when the toy is a mortar grenade. Malgorzata Chodyla, spokeswoman for a zoo in Poznan, in western Poland, told The Associated Pre...

MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND, N.B. - Barely more than a tenth of puffin chicks born on the barren landscape of Machias Seal Island this year survived, and scientists suggest climate change may be to blame. Res...

WASHINGTON - A claim from the presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: TRUMP: “Our jobs are fleeing the country. They’re going to Mexico. They’re going to many other ...

WASHINGTON - In a story Sept. 26 fact-checking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s claims about having his tax returns audited, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the IRS ...

WASHINGTON - A claim from the presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: TRUMP: Trump sidestepped attacks about whether his past skepticism that President Barack Obama was born in the Un...

WASHINGTON - A claim from the presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: TRUMP, responding to Hillary Clinton’s statement that he didn’t pay any federal income tax in the ear...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Donald Trump has a cold. Or at least something gave him the sniffles. The Republican nominee sniffled very loudly throughout much of the first general election debate Monday, eliciti...

WASHINGTON - She was at her best. He was not at his worst. Weeks of Super Bowl-style hype aside, Monday night’s 90 minutes of heated clashes between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump probably did...

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That’s nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who over...