Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - . The U.S. military said Saturday it’s detected what’s being described as a failed missile launch by North Korea. The launch occurred near the northwestern city of Kusong and ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Yemen’s Houthi rebels released two U.S. citizens on Saturday, without identifying the Americans. Kerry said they were freed as par...

VANCOUVER - The third and strongest storm in a series of disturbances fuelled by the remnants of typhoon Songda cancelled ferry service and knocked out power for thousands of customers on the south co...

EDMONTON - Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock says he remembers the Jim Prentice who didn’t shrink from a challenge when the Progressive Conservatives saw their government plunged into crisis o...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major ...

MANCHESTER, England - Welcome to the Premier League, Bob Bradley. The first American coach in the 24-year history of the Premier League got a taste of the frantic nature of England’s top divisio...

MONTREAL - Even working 40 hours a week, Sara Vassigh says she sometimes has trouble paying her rent and bills at the end of the month. With a salary just above minimum wage, she says home ownership, ...

NEW YORK - Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary celebrations this weekend come with a sense of relief for the group that traces its roots to a time when women could not vote and contraception ...

CLERMONT, Ky. - Bill Ball has handled multiple whiskey-making tasks in his 47 years at Jim Beam, but on Saturday he took on an unexpected role - joining colleagues on a picket line outside a Beam dist...

JOHANNESBURG - Experts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce global warming. The United States, the world’s second-worst polluter, is among the countries that wan...