Category Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Nunavik, where Gov. Gen. Mary Simon grew up, is a long way from Ottawa and farther still from Buckingham Palace. That never stopped her mother Nancy May, a unilingual Inuk, from keeping a pho...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungary's incoming prime minister, Pter Magyar, arrived Saturday at the Parliament building to be sworn into office, ending Viktor Orbn 's autocratic 16-year rule. Magyar's ce...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday oversaw a military parade commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II on Red Square. Security was tight in Moscow as Putin was s...

TORONTO - Canadian artists Michael Bubl and Alanis Morissette will be among a star-studded lineup of performers at the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Toronto in June. FIFA has announced separate o...

FORT ST. JOHN - British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation says workers have started draining water from a landslide in the province's northeast that has forced residents out of their homes for wee...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they have identified two suspects in an alleged attack on an eight-year-old boy in a haunted house attraction during the city's Khalsa Day celebrations. Surrey pol...

TORONTO - Infectious disease specialist Dr. Allison McGeer has lived and worked through SARS-1 in 2003, the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020. With the trauma of...

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday she was feeling far more confident about the prospects for a new pipeline following a meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier in t...

ABBOTSFORD - Three men have been found guilty of first-degree murder in the home-invasion killings of Abbotsford, B.C., couple Arnold and Joanne De Jong. Abhijeet Singh, Gurkaran Singh and Khushveer T...

OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing giving authority to review interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects, to the Canada Energy Regulator instead...