Author Archives: The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Threatening to tank Congress' massive COVID relief and government funding package, President Donald Trump's demand for bigger aid checks for Americans is forcing Republicans traditionally...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. There are 521,509 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 521,509 confirmed cases (75,523 active, 43...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - At night, Amanda Zitho worries her little boy is shivering and cold in his coffin and yearns to take him a blanket. She knows Wandi's dead and gone and it's senseless, but th...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest ...

NEW YORK - A good way to hear what we've missed this year is to listen to Sam Cooke's landmark live album, "Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963." On a warm January night in downtown Miami, Cooke was ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are looking for candidates seeking to run for them in the next election, focusing on people who have been working to help their communities through the COVID-19 pandemic....

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it won't be closing any provincial parks, whether it can find someone to run them or not. "I am grateful for the hard work of our parks partners and look forward...

HAMILTON - The Hamilton Police Service says three of its officers are being treated in hospital for stab wounds after responding to reports of an armed man in crisis on a city street.Const. Krista-Lee...

BOSTON - A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it "hugely insensitive." Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Soc...

MOSCOW - Russia said Tuesday it has sent 300 military instructors to the Central African Republic to help train its army that's facing an offensive by rebel groups ahead of elections. The mineral-rich...