Category Archives: Canadian Press

MOSCOW - Russia announced Monday it will supply Syria’s government with sophisticated S-300 air defence systems after last week’s downing of a Russian plane by Syria forces responding to a...

BEIJING - X-Men star Fan Bingbing’s Beijing management office is dark and abandoned. Her birthday passed almost unremarked in China’s hyper-adrenalized social media environment. For one of...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Sept. 24 --- CAPITAL RESIDENTS RETURN TO TORNADO RUBBLE Ontario Premier Doug Ford has pledged the province's full support to Ottawa residents recovering from Friday...

Voters in New Brunswick have turned have their backs on the province’s entrenched two-party system for the first time in a generation, electing enough third party candidates to leave the Liberal...

OTTAWA - Canada’s cities believe they will finally land easier and direct access to federal dollars in next year’s budget, or at least wrest a platform pledge from parties in the 2019 elec...

FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of killing four people, including two city police officers, is due back in court next month after his case was adjourned Monday. Matthew Raymond,48, faces four ...

The families of eight people killed by an Ontario nurse, as well as one of her surviving victims, lamented a fundamental lack of respect for human life in the province’s long-term care system Mo...

TORONTO - A Toronto man who stood to inherit a multimillion-dollar aviation company was found guilty of first-degree murder in his father’s death Monday, a ruling that marked his third such conv...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Declaring Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for dru...

MALE, Maldives - Maldives strongman President Yameen Abdul Gayoom conceded that he lost Sunday’s election to his challenger, longtime lawmaker Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, in a speech broadcast live o...