Category Archives: The Canadian Press

BELEM, Brazil (AP) - A fire spread through pavilions being used for U.N. climate talks in Brazil and prompted evacuations Thursday on the next-to-last day of the conference but nobody was hurt, offici...

OTTAWA - The dangers children face online constitute a national emergency, a coalition of child advocates and medical organizations said Thursday as they called for the federal government to take acti...

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chic...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A representative from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa will attend the formal handover ceremony at the end of this weekend's Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, but the United Stat...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland will move to Oxford, England, to take on a new position next summer administering the Rhodes Trust, the educational charity confirmed Thursday. The charity is fam...

QUBEC - A former Quebec Liberal Party chief of staff has sent a legal letter to her former employer, as the crisis within the party shows no signs of relenting. A lawyer for Genevive Hinse issued the ...

BELLA COOLA - British Columbia's north and central coast could see as much as 70 millimetres of rain as a frontal system sweeps through the region. Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued rai...

OTTAWA - The "Lost Canadians" legislation, which aims to fix Canada's unconstitutional citizenship, received royal assent Thursday after being approved by the Senate on Wednesday. The term "Lost Canad...

ABUJA, NIGERIA (AP) - A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu fou...

VIENNA (AP) - The U.N. atomic watchdog on Thursday demanded that Iran fully cooperate with the agency and provide "precise information" about its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, as well as gr...