Author Archives: The Canadian Press

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's emergency management agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has shaken the country's east. The earthquake struck the near the town of Sivrice in easter...

A seven-year-old boy hit by a bullet that came through the window of his Hamilton home was the unintended victim of a targeted shooting, local police said Friday as they ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month's Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base, and that half of the troops...

ST-HENRI-DE-TAILLON, Que. - Quebec provincial police have resumed a search effort for five missing snowmobilers from France who disappeared in frigid waters while riding off-trail in the pro...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre says weeks of uncertainty about whether he actually wanted to enter the party's leadership race came to a head as deadlines to sign contracts loomed. He ...

OTTAWA - Senior officials advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have pressed him gently to rethink how the Liberals have been making vice-regal appointments. Under the Conservatives, there had been&n...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sought Friday to put the Liberals on notice that despite the Tory leadership race, the Official Opposition won’t rest on its laurels. But though Scheer...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The governing body for organized hockey in Prince Edward Island is taking a tough stance on the issue of online harassment. Hockey PEI has sent a letter to several minor leagues warnin...

JERUSALEM - Britain's Prince Charles on Friday paid a solemn visit to the tomb of his grandmother, who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and whose tumultuous life was marked by exile, mental illness...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - One week after a record-breaking blizzard battered eastern Newfoundland, businesses in St. John's have been allowed to call in staff to prepare for the expected lifting of...