Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Canada’s most populous province and the federal government engaged in a pitched battle for public opinion over the carbon tax as it launched Monday, just six months ahead of the federa...

The road to the Tokyo Olympics will likely take the Canadian men’s rugby sevens team to the Cayman Islands in July for a North American qualifying tournament. And the regional qualifier looks to...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is taking his interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation well beyond the facts. He says he’s been fully exonerated based on...

WASHINGTON - David Johnston stands over a table full of peculiar items confiscated at Dulles International Airport: a glittery clutch with brass knuckles as a clasp. A perfume bottle shaped like a gre...

LONDON - Britain’s Parliament has spoken - and it has said no, again. Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country’s Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government̵...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity following nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ig...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Over the weekend, Gaza’s Hamas rulers marked a year of bloody, weekly protests that have failed to break the Israeli blockade. Rocket attacks brought a wave of Isra...

WASHINGTON - Aides to Joe Biden struck a more aggressive tone on Monday as the former vice-president faced scrutiny over his past behaviour toward women. In a statement, Biden spokesman Bill Russo bla...

WASHINGTON - When Kamala Harris made her much-heralded arrival in Washington as California’s first black U.S. senator, she made a curious early decision. Within months of her swearing-in, she sp...

BALTIMORE - Prosecutors offered a plea deal to the man whose murder conviction has been chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” and an HBO documentary series. The Baltimore Sun reports that...