Category Archives: Canadian Press

DES MOINES, Iowa - With the dust now settled from the election, Democrats are looking to rebuild the political “blue wall” of traditionally Democratic upper Midwest and Great Lakes states ...

SANTIAGO, Cuba - The Latest on the interment of Fidel Castro in Santiago, Cuba (all times local): 11:10 a.m. Cuban exile Armando Garcia was at the Versailles restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - A Frenchman whose wife and two of his three children were on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 said Sunday that he was still trying to find out what happene...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Emergency workers have recovered the bodies of three Palestinians who went missing in a smuggling tunnel between Gaza and Egypt. Search efforts were still ongoing Sunday ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is taking her bid for a statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election to federal court. After announcing Stein ...

KHAZIR, Iraq - The U.N. refugee agency distributed aid on Monday to dozens of Iraqi families uprooted from their homes in and around the city of Mosul, warning that their needs will only increase as w...

MONTREAL - Sheila Sullivan was one of 58 prospective religious sisters to join Montreal’s Congregation de Notre-Dame in 1964. In 2016, only one woman in Canada has applied to join the country...

VANCOUVER - The ever-simmering world of pipeline politics is once again threatening to boil over after the federal government approved the Trans Mountain project, as both backers and critics of the po...

MONTREAL - Canadians can breathe easier with the new Parti Quebecois leader, a pragmatic and wily politician who promises that if elected premier in 2018, he won’t hold a sovereignty referendum ...

VANCOUVER - A sketch of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is also an outspoken climate crusader: Born: Sept. 18, 1964, in North Vancouver (age: 52). Professional background: He started an organic ...