Category Archives: The Canadian Press

VICTORIA - Voting starts today for members of the B.C. Conservative Party to pick their new leader. Five candidates are running for leadership of B.C.'s official Opposition, taking over for interim le...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Two separate traffic accidents in Cambodia on Saturday killed at least 14 garment factory workers and injured 93 others, mostly women. The garment sector is Cambodia's main...

WASHINGTON - A high-ranking U.S. defence official says the Pentagon gave Ottawa a classified paper laying out priorities for a collective North American defence pact with Canada, but that Ottawa did n...

OTTAWA - A provision in the federal government's proposed hate crime bill to create a stand-alone hate crime offence will make it easier to investigate and prosecute those crimes, some experts say. "T...

BEIJING (AP) - A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday, in the country's deadliest mining accident in recent years. T...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Hotel Association is blaming flawed "messaging" for vacancies heading into next month's FIFA World Cup, that has left tourists with the false impression no rooms are a...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal 's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has fired Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko after months of simmering tension. The decision was announced by the secretary general of the go...

VICTORIA - The committee organizing the leadership race for the B.C. Conservatives says it doesn't have enough credible evidence to take action against a candidate after a media report said she was ac...

NEW YORK (AP) - One person has died after a fire and two explosions Friday at a New York City shipyard, officials say. Officials said 36 people were injured, most of them firefighters and other first ...

VICTORIA - The union representing about 60,000 nurses in British Columbia and their provincial employer have reached a tentative contract agreement that would give members a 12 per cent wage hike over...