Category Archives: The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The mov...

CALGARY - The federal government has approved a $4-billion plan by Enbridge Inc. to expand an existing natural gas pipeline in British Columbia, a move one executive says demonstrates a greater "sense...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississipp...

The body of a Bangladeshi doctoral student who went missing with his girlfriend from the University of South Florida was found on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and his roommate has been taken into custody,...

OTTAWA - Most employees working at Global Affairs Canada won't have to return to the office four days a week this summer due to a lack of space. Treasury Board announced earlier this year that public ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border of the U.S., a key pillar of the Republican president's pl...

OTTAWA - The former U.S. diplomat for LGBTQ+ rights urged Canada to boost its support for gender and sexual minorities abroad, as American cuts to foreign aid loomed large at a development and human r...

WILLIAMS LAKE - An evacuation alert has been issued in British Columbia's Cariboo region for a handful of properties as a wildfire burns out of control at the start of the province's wildfire season. ...

MONTREAL - Lawyers at a legal clinic operating in a low income neighbourhood in Montreal say that millions of dollars in federal grants will soon flow through into Black communities across the country...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $25.5 billion for the April-to-February period of its 2025-26 fiscal year. In its monthly fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the ...