Author Archives: The Canadian Press

WINNIPEG - A timeline of major events in Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister's political career: Sept. 15, 1992: Pallister wins a provincial byelection in Portage la Prairie. He is re-elected in 1995 and...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister plans to leave office Wednesday and have the Tory caucus choose an interim leader. Pallister, who announced his intention to step down earlier this month, s...

Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says the city will invest an additional $5.5 million in its police force in order to help fight gun crime. Plante said today alongside Chief Sylvain Caron that the amount ...

MILAN (AP) - Italian firefighters on Sunday battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-story residential building and poured black smoke into the air. Residents were hurriedly...

MIAMI (AP) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a new tropical storm system has formed in the central Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters at the Miami-based center say Tropical Storm Julian poses no thre...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan official says three children were killed in a drone strike that U.S. officials said struck a vehicle carrying Islamic State suicide bombers. The official spoke on c...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) - A missile and drone attack on a key military base in Yemen's south on Sunday killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. - In the year since the first camp was set up to prevent old-growth logging around the Fairy Creek watershed on southern Vancouver Island, an expert in Canadian environmental moveme...

OTTAWA - An angry crowd of agitators surrounded Justin Trudeau's campaign buses and screamed profanity at the Liberal Leader during a campaign event in Cambridge, Ont., Sunday. The event was delayed m...

TORONTO - A lottery player in Quebec won Saturday's $11 million Lotto 649 jackpot. The winning ticket for the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize was also sold in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto...