Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Conservatives, Liberals clash over youth unemployment as Tories pitch training reform
OTTAWA - Young workers in Canada are facing an increasingly bleak jobs market - and the federal Conservatives and Liberals are at odds over how the government could help. Unemployment rose to 14.7 per...
Oct 15, 2025
Records reveal what Chrétien told ministers before Quebec referendum
MONTREAL - Six days before the nail-biting 1995 Quebec referendum that nearly tore the country apart, Jean Chrtien told his ministers to keep their cool. The prime minister acknowledged that day that ...
Oct 15, 2025
Pakistan says it has agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan said Wednesday it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan following days of violence that have killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. Pakistan's Foreign ...
Oct 15, 2025
Canadian slugger Josh Naylor helps Mariners put Blue Jays in big ALCS hole with home run back home
TORONTO (AP) - It was a tough start to the American League Championship Series for the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada's team headed west for Game 3 in Seattle, facing a daunting 2-0 deficit in the best-of-...
Oct 15, 2025
Leader of Madagascar's military coup tells AP he is 'taking the position of president'
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) - The leader of Madagascar's military coup told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he is "taking the position of president" and that the armed forces would be in char...
Oct 15, 2025
Bieber aims to get Toronto's Comeback Kids a road win tonight in ALCS
SEATTLE - For more than a century, statistics have been a staple of the game of baseball. Many of those key numbers currently don't favour the Toronto Blue Jays as they aim to dig themselves out of a ...
Oct 15, 2025
In the news today: Stellantis' move upsets union, conservatives win N.L. election
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Unifor decries Stellantis move to U.S. A union representing autoworkers at Jeep's Brampton assembly plant in O...
Oct 15, 2025
Blue Jays fans arrive in Seattle for ALCS Game 3 against the Mariners
SEATTLE - Lloyd Johnston and Shaun Funk arrived in Seattle from Vancouver by train Wednesday wearing rival baseball caps, but the two friends said they're only a "little conflicted." Johnston, with th...
Oct 15, 2025
Blue Jays fans arrive in Seattle for ALCS Game 3 against the Mariners
SEATTLE - Lloyd Johnston and Shaun Funk arrived in Seattle from Vancouver by train Wednesday wearing rival baseball caps, but the two friends said they're only a "little conflicted." Johnston, with th...
Oct 15, 2025
Alberta government to release report into health contract scandal in 'a few days'
EDMONTON - Alberta's government says it received Wednesday the final report from the investigation into allegations of corruption over health contracts, but it won't be immediately released. Former Ma...
Oct 15, 2025