Category Archives: The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Before the world's attention was captured by a disease outbreak that has killed three and sickened a handful of others on the MV Hondius cruise ship, many Canadians had never heard of hantav...

OTTAWA - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is in Ottawa this week, where she plans to visit her birthplace and attend the Canadian Tulip Festival. The Dutch princess and her husband Professor Piete...

OTTAWA - The head of the federal government's major projects office says just the "threat" of Ottawa having Bill C-5 at its disposal is enough to spur government departments to move quickly on project...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty said he will unveil the Liberal government's plans for the military's Snowbirds aerobatics fleet later this month, and Canadians can "rest assured" its future ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support. The department told The Associated Pres...

OTTAWA - Several Canadian organizations and civil society leaders are calling for a halt to a Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement, which they say will pose a risk to the environment and exacerbate a h...

SURREY - A foreign national with no status in Canada has been arrested in Surrey, B.C., over a shooting last month that's believed to be linked to extortion. Surrey police say the Canada Border Servic...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Amid raucous protests Thursday, Republicans in Tennessee enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis, reshaping it to the GOP's advantage a...

QUBEC - The Quebec government tabled a bill on Thursday to increase the number of ridings in the province to 127 from 125, after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against its attempt to block a redraw...

Bell Canada's parent company has upped its revenue target for its growing AI business by a third as it moves forward with plans to build a cluster of data centres, while assuring it will maintain "res...