Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole scripted more of his party's electoral strategy Wednesday, creating new critic portfolios to signal where his focus will be when Canadians go to the polls: a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - One of Saudi Arabia's most prominent political activists was released from prison Wednesday, her family said, after serving nearly three years on charges that sparked an ...

Montreal's mayor is calling on Ottawa to take stronger action on banning handguns after a 15-year-old girl died in a drive-by shooting in the city on Sunday. Valerie Plante told the city's executive c...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A mining company wants a judge to order Nunavut hunters to stop blocking the mine's road and airstrip in protest of its proposed expansion. Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is seeking th...

ATLANTA - A Georgia prosecutor said Wednesday that she has opened a criminal investigation into "attempts to influence" last year's general election, including a call in which President Donald Trump a...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:30 p.m. British Columbia's COVID-19 infection rate remains below 500, with 469 new cases reported Wednesday and six more death...

NEW YORK - Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner and Iron Maiden lead this year's nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a female-heavy list of 16 acts that includes for the first time The Go-Go's, Ma...

When Hugh Grant accepted his Golden Globe in 1995 for "Four Weddings and a Funeral," you could say he slayed the room - with the kind of boyishly befuddled, sweetly stammering speech he might have mad...

OTTAWA - A new report from the parliamentary budget officer says the government may be slightly underestimating how much revenue it could receive from taxing online services like Netflix.As it is, for...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska's governor has issued a disaster declaration and released funds for a southwest village more than three weeks after a fire destroyed the community's only source of drinking wat...