Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Mark Carney, long touted as a potential Liberal leader one day, will be a keynote speaker at the federal party's convention later this week. It's a political coming out party of sorts for the...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 4:30 p.m. Quebec says it is adding several cities in the Chaudiere-Appalaches region south of Quebec City to the list of municip...

There was a time last year when the guardians of Edehzhie would head out on the land in the Northwest Territories and worry what their communities might look like when they returned. That was when COV...

BEIJING - A Chinese fishing boat capsized and sank early Sunday off the coast of the eastern Zhejiang province, killing at least 12 people and leaving four missing, according to state media reports. F...

VATICAN CITY - Christianity's most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful far apart in pews and singing choruses of "Hallelujah" through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday m...

JERUSALEM - Jordanian authorities said Sunday they foiled a "malicious plot" by a former crown prince to destabilize the kingdom with foreign support, contradicting the senior royal's claims that he w...

PARIS - The French city of Lyon's main stadium opened as a mass vaccination centre during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other s...

YANGON, Myanmar - Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar, adept at finding themes to tie together protests nationwide, took to the streets holding painted eggs in a nod to the Easter holiday on Sunday. In...

LONDON - Police in Northern Ireland have appealed for calm after officers were attacked with petrol bombs and cars were set on fire during a second night of unrest. Three cars were hijacked and set on...

OTTAWA - Canada's top military procurement official says there are no plans to change directions on the construction of a fleet of new Navy warships despite a recent warning about escalating costs fro...