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Canada camp in Bahrain 'devastated' by news of goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau's broken leg
Canada's first training session Monday at a pre-World Cup training camp in Bahrain was overshadowed with the panful news that goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was back in the U.S., recovering from surgery to...
Nov 07, 2022

Feds hold groundbreaking ceremony for Moderna's mRNA vaccine factory in Montreal area
LAVAL, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today took part today in a groundbreaking ceremony for biotechnology company Moderna's new mRNA vaccine factory in Laval, Que., a suburb of Montreal. The fa...
Nov 07, 2022

Canadian Press NewsAlert: CUPE to end education worker protests in Ontario
TORONTO - A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Friday says protest sites "will be collapsed starting" Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will re...
Nov 07, 2022

Climate conference hears loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050
Scientists are telling the global climate conference in Egypt that the loss of summer Arctic sea ice is now inevitable. The report, delivered today at the COP 27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, says there...
Nov 07, 2022

Putin-linked businessman admits to US election meddling
Kremlin-connected entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so - confirming for the first time the accusations that he has reject...
Nov 07, 2022

Veterans' parade returns to national Remembrance Day after two-year hiatus
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Legion is welcoming back one of the most iconic aspects of Canada's national Remembrance Day ceremony following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: the veter...
Nov 07, 2022

Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade resigns for 'the good of the party'
MONTREAL - Dominique Anglade is resigning as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, five weeks after the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat in the provincial election. Anglade told reporters today she i...
Nov 07, 2022

Military investigating after Canadian soldier dies in Iraq
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating the death of a Winnipeg-based soldier who was serving in Iraq. Capt. Eric Cheung, 38, died Saturday under what the military is calling "non-...
Nov 07, 2022

Presidential push: Biden, Obama, Trump stump before Tuesday's midterm elections
WASHINGTON - Presidents past and present are making one final push as the 2022 U.S. midterm election campaigns finally approach the finish line. Joe Biden and Barack Obama reunited the 2008 Democratic...
Nov 07, 2022

Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: 'It was now or never'
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she'd done befor...
Nov 07, 2022