Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The pressure on the federal Liberal government to introduce a universal basic income ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with a report from the parliamentary budget officer that suggests it could ...

OTTAWA - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says it is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend the delivery of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months. NACI's exper...

OTTAWA - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend timing of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months after the first, but says m...

LONDON - The European Union drug regulator said Wednesday that it found a "possible link" between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and a rare clotting disorder but declined to impose any new age re...

LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods was driving nearly 90 mph - twice the posted speed limit - on a downhill stretch of road when he lost control of an SUV and crashed in a wreck that seriously injured the golf...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:15 p.m. B.C. is reporting another 997 COVID-19 cases and two more deaths, bringing the total fatalities to 1,491 since the pan...

NEW YORK - Even an NCAA championship matchup between two widely acknowledged as the best men's college basketball teams in the country wasn't enough to set the television world afire. An estimated 16....

NEW YORK - George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late back home just to tune in. Though he's now in the right time zone, h...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - The U.S. trade deficit grew to a record $71.1 billion in February as a decline in exports more than offset a slight dip in imports, with severe weather taking much of the blame fr...

MINNEAPOLIS - Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck area - and was bearing down with most of his weight - the entire 9 1/2 minutes the Black man lay facedown with his hands cuffed ...