Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Canadians expect concrete measures from politicians to ensure everyone - Indigenous people included - has access to first-class medical treatment, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller sai...

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court's order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of inju...

ROME - The IOC is adamant the Tokyo Olympics will be held this year despite the pandemic. So, too, are Japanese organizers. Now hear it from the man who represents the track and field, swimming and gy...

TOKYO - Remember the word: Playbook. This is the rule book that the IOC and Tokyo organizers are set to roll out next week to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes and tens of thousands o...

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose a modest 0.2% in December, held back by a big drop in the volatile aircraft sector. A key category that tracks business inv...

DETROIT - One of six men charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, admitting that the group discussed an incredible scheme to snatch h...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is grappling with a surge in the number of troops who have been infected with COVID-19 over the past month, even as a growing number of service members have started ...

BERLIN - A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a co...

NEW YORK - One of the first book-length inside accounts of the coronavirus pandemic will be coming out in June. Lawrence Wright's "The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier...

LELAND, N.C. - An unlucky start to a North Carolina man's day turned upside down when he discovered he won a $2 million lottery prize hours after hitting two deer with his new car. Anthony Dowe, of Le...