Author Archives: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - "Canada and the United States have worked side by side to tackle some of the greatest challenges we have faced in our history. We will continue this partnership as we fight the global COVID-1...

HALIFAX - Allan Legere plotted a fresh escape the year he was convicted of a series of brutal killings that had created panic in Miramichi, N.B., according to a written decision denying him parole. Th...

OTTAWA - Reforms to a federal support program for provinces will nearly triple the cost to Ottawa next year, with the price tag projected to be about $4.5 billion, says Canada's parliamentary budget o...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:30 p.m. B.C. is reporting 500 new cases of COVID-19 today, for a total of 62,412, as the provincial health officer says the ca...

A Nunavut community was under a state of emergency Wednesday after a fire destroyed one of its grocery and retail stores. Photos on social media from Igloolik, a community of about 1,600, showed orang...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling for the federal government to impose economic sanctions against the United States in response to newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden's "gut pun...

REGINA - A former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has submitted paperwork with reasons why he should not be sent back to India when he gets out of prison. Jaskirat Singh ...

WASHINGTON - Relief and apprehension alike are washing over the U.S. capital as Donald Trump finally makes room for Joe Biden at the White House. By the time Biden is sworn in today as the 46th U.S. p...

MADRID - A powerful gas explosion tore through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least three people and ripping the facade off the structure. A tower of smoke rose from...

CAIRO - A boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, drowning at least 43 people, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday. The International Org...