Author Archives: The Canadian Press

TOKYO - In yet another setback for the postponed Tokyo Olympics - and another involving comments about women - games' creative director Hiroshi Sasaki resigned on Thursday after making demeaning comme...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - America's top diplomat on Thursday pressed China to use its "tremendous influence" to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, hours after the North said it wil...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. There are 919,239 confirmed cases in Canada. <b>_ Canada: 919,239 confirmed cases (31,60...

VICTORIA - Two mink farms that are still quarantined after COVID-19 outbreaks have begun annual breeding programs along with seven other farms in British Columbia. The Agriculture Ministry said the pr...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti is warning the Senate that making further amendments to legislation requiring new judges to take training on sexual assault law could doom the bill to failing f...

VICTORIA - The lifting of more British Columbia health restrictions is likely as the COVID-19 vaccination plan rolls out across the province, Premier John Horgan said Wednesday. However, Horgan says h...

OTTAWA - Intolerably suffering Canadians who are not near the natural end of their lives now have the right to seek medical assistance in dying. And that will eventually include people suffering solel...

WASHINGTON - Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Canadians detained by China in 2018 as part of a high-stakes trilateral stalemate with the United States, are facing separate court hearings in ...

NAKURU, Kenya - President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was...

Reactions to the shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlours that left eight dead, mostly women of Asian descent: ___ "Jill and I are keeping everyone impacted by the shootings in Atlanta in our ...