Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Auditor general Michael Ferguson has been asked to determine how a move to modernize the federal government’s payroll system turned into a fiasco in which more than 80,000 public servan...

CHICAGO - Islamic State militants rarely miss a chance, however tenuous the link, to claim at least partial credit for apparent terrorist attacks on U.S soil, from June’s deadly mass shooting at...

ATLANTA - Gas prices spiked and drivers found “out of service” bags covering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the scattered disruptions ...

NEW YORK - Many people in the New York City area were alerted Monday morning to a screeching, buzzing message about a man wanted in connection with explosions in the area over the weekend. A Saturday ...

Joined by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, a Yazidi woman who described praying for death while being raped by her Islamic State captors called on world leaders Monday to step up efforts to bring the...

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: In this angry election year, many American voters are deeply skeptical about free trade - or downright hostile to it. The backlash against trade threatens a pillar of U.S. poli...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister says it’s important to explore ways that Vancouver and Seattle can work together more closely as one region. Navd...

NEW YORK - Michelle Obama tapped some big voices to help deliver her push to get girls educated across the world. The U.S. first lady went to Broadway on Monday to host a concert for the spouses of gl...

TORONTO - Ralph Krueger was well aware of the odds against Team Europe entering the World Cup of Hockey, but his group never saw it as a hurdle. Instead, the team represented by seven different countr...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for sweeping changes to the controversial temporary foreign workers program, including a faster path for citizenship for those with long-term work perm...