Category Archives: Canadian Press

BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 14 people Tuesday, while the shelling of a government-held neighbourhood in southern Syria hit a school, killing ...

ST. ANTHONY, N.D. - Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal right...

GENEVA - The U.N. health agency on Tuesday recommended that countries use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100-per cent fruit juices as a way to figh...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is turning to another battle aside from illegal drugs: smoking. Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial told the Associated Press on Tuesday that she h...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A truck transporting Cambodian garment workers to their factory flipped over at a curve Tuesday, injuring 54 of them, including seven who are in critical condition, police said....

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 11 --- RAIN, WIND WREAK HAVOC IN ATLANTIC CANADA Thousands of homes and businesses across Atlantic Canada were without electricity early today due to heavy ra...

TORONTO - Unifor says Fiat Chrysler has commited to invest a total of $554 million at its Ontario plants in addition to increasing wages and benefits for the union’s members in line with a patte...

OTTAWA - The federal government is under quiet, but growing pressure to focus housing spending on the neediest, instead of forging ahead with a national plan aimed at the entire housing spectrum. The ...

GATINEAU, Que. - Canada’s top special forces soldier has been fined $2,000 after accidentally firing his weapon near another military officer last year. A military judge handed down the punishme...

OTTAWA - The federal government is keeping closer tabs on a student loan program targeting doctors and nurses after many of them had loans mistakenly forgiven over the past two years. The federal gove...