Category Archives: Canadian Press

BRUSSELS - The head of Belgium’s small Wallonia region is rejecting a Friday deadline to sign up to a huge trade deal between Canada and the European Union, demanding a full renegotiation that c...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police and other law enforcement organizations around the world co-operated in a massive weeklong operation targeting organized crime that led to 314 arrests, the seizure or 2...

YOLA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. ...

OSLO - Defending cross-country World Cup champion Therese Johaug was handed a two-month provisional suspension Wednesday pending a full investigation into her positive doping test. Johaug, one of Norw...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A federal judge was considering on Wednesday whether the jury in a University of Virginia administrator’s defamation suit against Rolling Stone should be able to watch a v...

WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials are warning that they’ll be dispatching fewer trained election observers as a result of a Supreme Court opinion that gutted a key provision of the Votin...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 18 --- TRUDEAU LIBERALS MARK ONE YEAR IN POWER It was one year ago today that Canadians headed to the polls in a federal election that elevated the third-plac...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russians and an American has blasted off for the International Space Station. The crew of Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and NASA ast...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his fellow Liberals were in a self-congratulatory mood Wednesday as both sides of the House of Commons marked the first anniversary of the 2015 election, whi...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has downgraded the country’s growth outlook yet again with fresh projections Wednesday that see an impending drop in housing activity tied to new government rules and...