Author Archives: The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner is investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside a portable toilet early Sunday morning close to a Montreal homeless shelter he frequented.On Monday, a spo...

OTTAWA - Ontario Conservative MP Derek Sloan could be expelled from his party's caucus as early as Tuesday for accepting a donation to his leadership campaign from a white supremacist. But Sloan accus...

Facing criticism that he was acceding to President Donald Trump's demand to produce citizenship information at the expense of data quality, U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said Monday th...

OTTAWA - Dozens of people - including some MPs - say Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet has blocked them on Twitter after they criticized his statements about Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, ...

NEW YORK - Add Garth Brooks to the lineup of entertainers at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. "This is a great day in our household," the country music superstar said during a virtual pr...

100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - A teen who became lost while on a family snowmobile outing in a remote British Columbia mountain wilderness is being praised for using his backcountry survival skills.The 17-yea...

WASHINGTON - Hours from inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Washington Tuesday evening to mark instead the national tragedy of the coronavi...

GENEVA - The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it's "not right" that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinate...

EDMONTON - Alberta has decided to cancel recently issued coal leases in the Rocky Mountains, as public opposition grows to the United Conservative government's plan to expand coal mining in the area. ...

NEW YORK - Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. The conve...