Author Archives: The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Crown prosecutors are appealing a 12 1/2-year sentence given to an Ontario truck driver found guilty in the killing of a woman in his Edmonton hotel room. Bradley Barton was sentenced in Ju...

TORONTO - Ontario's education minister says his government is open to striking a deal on affordable child care with the federal Liberals if it accounts for what he described as the province's "unique"...

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul's main airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off and plunged to their d...

MONTREAL - Lamenting the "fly in and fly out" culture of workers in Quebec's northern communities, Premier Franois Legault said Monday his government would build more affordable housing in the north t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military is sending another battalion of about 1,000 troops to help safeguard the Kabul airport, where American forces killed two armed people during increasingly chaotic ev...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will address the nation on Monday about the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, after the planned withdrawal of American forces turned deadly at Kabul's airport as ...

SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. - The chief of Sipekne'katik First Nation was taken in for questioning by federal Fisheries Department officers on Monday, moments after he announced the expansion of his band's se...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is mandating masks, banning gatherings and closing non-essential businesses in two communities where COVID-19 cases have been identified. There was one confirme...

Two wildfires fanned by gusty winds roared through British Columbia's southern Interior leaving behind a trail of destroyed properties, says a spokeswoman for the area's regional district. Laura Wilso...