Author Archives: The Canadian Press

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):5:45 p.m.Alberta continues to record more than 500 new COVID-19 cases per day.The province's chief medical health officer says in...

TORONTO - Five years ago, Dilnaz Garda stood frozen in place at a procession line at her brother's funeral. His colleagues, Toronto police officers, walked up to her one-by-one. "I'm in my own living ...

EDMONTON - Environmentalists and scientists are calling on Parks Canada to further restrict access to Rocky Mountain backcountry in an effort to help save the last large caribou herd in the national p...

KABUL - U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, on his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, said Sunday that the Biden administration wants to see "a responsible end" to America's longest war, b...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Republican Julia Letlow easily won a Saturday special election for the northeast Louisiana-based U.S. House seat that her husband, Luke, couldn't fill because of his death from comp...

BANGKOK - Scores of people were injured and arrested in the Thai capital after police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday night to break up a rally by pro-democracy protesters cal...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine troops killed an Abu Sayyaf rebel commander blamed for years of ransom kidnappings and on Sunday rescued the last of his four Indonesian captives, the military said. M...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine defence chief on Sunday demanded more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila, saying their presenc...

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's most populous state of New South Wales on Sunday issued more evacuation orders following the worst flooding in decades. The New South Wales State Emergency Services res...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for the coronavirus two days after he received his first vaccine dose, officials announced. Dr. Faisal Sultan, Khan's special assist...