Author Archives: The Canadian Press

NEW YORK - A man accusing Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexually abusing him in the 1980s when he was 14 cannot proceed anonymously in court, a judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. K...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau will stay in a quarantine hotel for three days starting Wednesday after returning from the United Kingdom where he's attending the first in-person meetin...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is suspending its common travel area with the Northwest Territories after a COVID-19 outbreak closed schools in Yellowknife.The N.W.T. on Monday reported eight confirmed cas...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday formally raised the nation's cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ...

OTTAWA - Targeting the Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys with anti-terror legislation has led to the group's apparent demise, but a leading expert says it might have little effect on the broader far-...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament say they are open to changing the way witnesses are treated at committees after some sexual violence survivors and advocates say they felt angered and, in some cases, re...

MONTREAL - A commission investigating Quebec's youth protection system released its final report Monday, calling on the government to create a charter of children's rights. The commission's 552-page r...

YELLOWKNIFE - All schools in Yellowknife have been closed after eight cases of COVID-19 were confirmed at an elementary school over the weekend. The chief public health officer for the Northwest Terri...

There wasn't much Bobby Unser wouldn't do to promote the Indianapolis 500, which is how he found himself at a show-and-tell at an Indiana elementary school a few years ago. He had the famed Indy 500 w...

WASHINGTON - In a potentially significant shift in the debate over combating sexual assault in the military, the nation's top general says he is dropping his opposition to a proposal to take decisions...