Author Archives: The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - A veteran Quebec nurse told a coroner's inquest Wednesday he had raised concerns about the care Joyce Echaquan had received at the hospital before she died and how she had lacked supervisio...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked U.S. intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trai...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - If he's not airborne, there's a good chance you will find 97-year-old John Billings at his home airport in Luray, Virginia. A recent heart attack prevents him, for now, from p...

Quebec's public security minister says the government won't immediately reduce the number of police forces in the province or integrate the anti-corruption unit into a larger cybercrime squad. Geneviv...

OTTAWA - Mike Duffy is retiring from the Senate, a parliamentary chamber that has been fundamentally transformed as a result of his turbulent 12-year term as a senator.Duffy was the central figure in ...

TORONTO - More than half of all people in Canada have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, health authorities reported Wednesday, as Alberta charted an ambitious course to lift most pandem...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - An assailant opened fire Wednesday at a California railyard serving Silicon Valley, killing eight people. The suspect was also dead, authorities said. Santa Clara County sherif...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Mali's transitional president has resigned while he and the prime minister are in detention after being arrested by the military earlier this week. The resignation comes as represe...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Wildlife Department has defended its decision to euthanize a young bear that was captured after being found wandering in a Montreal suburb, as criticism poured in from citizens and...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7 p.m. COVID-19 case counts in B.C. continue to fall with a report of 250 new cases on Wednesday, the lowest number since late O...