Category Archives: The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the Un...

The Washington Nationals are finalizing a deal to hire 33-year-old Blake Butera as manager, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday ...

MONTREAL - Lise Bacon, a former senator and Quebec cabinet minister who was the first woman to hold the post of deputy premier, has died at the age of 91. Her death on Wednesday was confirmed by natio...

TORONTO - An hour before the Toronto Blue Jays' merchandise store at Rogers Centre was set to open Thursday morning, Fay Dietrich stood in line among dozens of other fans in the drizzling rain. She sa...

TORONTO - Canada is heading up talks to establish a G7 critical mineral production alliance in what's widely seen as a bid to check China's reign over a supply chain key to everything from wind turbin...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians. Friday's handover comes a day after Palestinian militants in Gaza turned over the remains of ...

QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault insists he will not back down on controversial changes to how the province's physicians are paid, despite a court challenge by a doctors' union and the resignati...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty said Thursday he has "every confidence" the Liberal government will pass its fall budget through the current minority Parliament, despite his colleague's conce...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Blue Jays top Dodgers 6-1 to take 3-2 series lead Davis Schneider set the early tone on Wednesday night. Vladi...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 were tied with nearly all votes counted Thursday in the Dutch general election in an unprecedent...