Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Bank of Canada expected to hold key rate, move to sidelines after an uncertain 2025
OTTAWA - Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The...
Dec 08, 2025
Trump says 'We'll see' on whether to restart trade talks with Canada
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump answered "we'll see" when he was asked Sunday whether he'd resume the trade talks he halted with Canada earlier this year. Trump made several comments about th...
Dec 07, 2025
Thailand launches airstrikes along border with Cambodia as tensions reignite
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as both sides accused the other of breaking a ceasefire that halted fighting earlier this year. Longstandi...
Dec 07, 2025
Shots fired, cars burned: Surrey Police
VICTORIA - Police in Surrey, B.C., say shots fired at a residence and two vehicle fires Sunday morning are connected, but it is not clear whether they involve extortion. A statement from the Surrey Po...
Dec 07, 2025
RCMP say a woman died in single-vehicle collision near Golden Ears Bridge
VICTORIA - Police in British Columbia say they are investigating a fatal vehicle collision near a well-known bridge across the Fraser River. A statement from Ridge Meadows RCMP serving the area around...
Dec 07, 2025
Soccer official with Iranian ties says he is shocked national team won't play in B.C.
VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in th...
Dec 07, 2025
Surrey Police Service say a nine-year-old has died after collision with large vehicle
VICTORIA - Police in Surrey, B.C. say that the nine-year-old child involved in a vehicle collision Friday afternoon has died. Surrey Police Service says in a statement released Sunday morning that the...
Dec 07, 2025
Interim leader Halford says Conservatives will "work co-operatively" to repeal DRIPA
VICTORIA - The interim leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. says Premier David Eby must immediately recall the legislature to repeal the province's Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peop...
Dec 07, 2025
Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals 'fun' at Putnam competition
ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William L...
Dec 07, 2025
Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
OTTAWA - Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66. Thorne spent mu...
Dec 07, 2025