Category Archives: Canadian Press

Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 19 --- FEDS AND PROVINCES DICKER OVER HEALTH CARE FUNDING Canada’s finance and health ministers meet today to try to reach an agreement on federal fundi...

OTTAWA - The federal government is to sit down Monday with the provinces for some tough negotiations on the future of health-care funding in Canada. Shortly before a Sunday dinner meeting with their f...

Calgary police have had more officer-involved shootings than any other city in Canada in 2016. Calgary police Chief Roger Chaffin believes there is something wrong and has called for an independent pr...

OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traffic off Vancouv...

A Canadian Forces probe of cadet dress-code pamphlets has uncovered eight containing “unacceptable language,” months after controversy over a similar recruitment leaflet that “shamed...

CALGARY - Grant Heffernan thinks about his young brother every day but more so each time he hears there’s been another shooting by police in Calgary. “We were thinking that with my brother...

BENGHAZI, Libya - A suicide bomber has killed eight Libyan army troops near the eastern city of Benghazi, an attack that showed the Islamic State group is still able to strike out in the North African...

BEIRUT - The latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 12:30 a.m. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says member nations must ensure the urgent deployment of United Nations monitors to...

BEIRUT - The leaders of Russia and Iran, military allies of Syria’s president, talked Monday about joining forces to reach a quick political settlement in Syria, as the country’s largest c...

SAN ANTONIO - Tim Duncan brought more than gaudy numbers night after night for 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Fittingly, while the Spurs retired Duncan’s No. 21 on Sunday night, those st...