Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Julie Payette resigned as Canada's Governor General on Thursday, saying that to protect the integrity of her office and for the good of the country, it was time for her to go. Clouds of contr...

OTTAWA - Julie Payette resigned Thursday as Canada's governor general, saying that to protect the integrity of her office and for the good of the country it was time for her to go. Payette joins a ver...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The Southern California city of Riverside has approved plans to remodel its main library to display Cheech Marin's art collection and commit about $1 million of city money a year t...

OTTAWA - It will likely be another year before a federal review of the government's key transparency law is complete, fuelling the frustration of openness advocates. Newly released terms of reference ...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has proposed to Russia a five-year extension of a nuclear arms treaty that is otherwise set to expire in February, the White House said Thursday. Biden proposed the ex...

A director at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association believes provinces should set targets for vaccinating inmates in provincial jails - something half of jurisdictions have yet to do. The Correctio...

Manitoba is loosening lockdown measures as its COVID-19 case counts continue to level off, but while other provinces see early signs of a similar slowdown, experts warn that some of the worst impacts ...

WASHINGTON - If Joe Biden’s decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn’t know it from the newly minted president’s ca...

SEATTLE - Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 d...

FRANKFURT - With more than a trillion euros in stimulus still in the pipeline to the economy, the European Central Bank left its key bond-purchase program unchanged Thursday as the 19-country eurozone...