Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Newly released statistics on opioid-related deaths in Canada through the first three months of the year suggest such fatalities are on the rise compared to each of the last two years. The lat...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it will be doing “damage control” after Opposition leader Jason Kenney’s visit to India. Trade Minister Deron Bilous says there appears to be c...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is taking a personal interest in the possible poisoning of a Canadian member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. German doctors have b...

NEW YORK - Julie Chen announced Tuesday that she was leaving the cast of the CBS daytime show “The Talk” a week after her husband, CBS Corp. boss Leslie Moonves, was ousted from the compan...

LONDON - American performance poet Danez Smith has won the prestigious Forward Prize for the collection “Don’t Call Us Dead.” At 29, the poet from St. Paul, Minnesota is the youngest...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska man linked to the disappearance and death of a 10-year-old girl made his first appearance in federal court Tuesday. Peter Wilson, 41, of Kotzebue is charged with making f...

RUSE, Bulgaria - Canada dropped its second straight match at the world men’s volleyball championship on Wednesday, falling 3-1 to France. Set scores were 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 25-17. Earvin Ngape...

OTTAWA - After waiting nine years to make his case against the federal government, Abousfian Abdelrazik will have to stay patient a while longer. The Montreal man’s lawsuit over Canada’s r...

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Trump administration rolled back an Obama-era rule meant to curb climate-changing pollution on Tuesday, easing restrictions on energy companies that allow huge volumes of natural...

FREDERICTON - Election officials and student groups have launched a concerted effort to get students to vote in next week’s New Brunswick election - including flexible voting rules and the hirin...