Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Barbra Streisand put her feelings about Donald Trump into song Friday night. At an LGBT fundraiser for Hillary Clinton Friday, the singer performed a parody of the Stephen Sondheim song ...

OTTAWA - Former employees of now defunct Canadian International Development Agency might need as long as a decade to get used to the idea they have been subsumed by the larger foreign ministry. That i...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s approach to the Site C dam project in British Columbia is not in keeping with Canada’s constitution nor with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenou...

WASHINGTON - With a new promise of $20 million to help defeat Donald Trump, billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz becomes one of the top Democratic donors of the election The Silicon Valley...

NEW YORK - Over and over again, Donald Trump says he opposed the Iraq War before it started. But no matter how many times the Republican candidate for president says it, the facts are clear: He did no...

WASHINGTON - A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: IMMIGRATION The future of millions of people living in the U.S. illegally could well b...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - The Dutch finance minister urged Apple on Saturday to “get ready” to pay up. Jeroen Dijsselbloem and his counterparts from other EU nations lined up behind a finding...

COPENHAGEN - Scandinavian Airlines is banning passengers from using the new Samsung Note 7 smartphone on its flights because of concern about fires. SAS spokesman Fredrik Henriksson says he expects &#...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Before Achmat Hassiem hops onto the Paralympic starting blocks in Rio, he’ll close his eyes and think of Scarlet. She’s the 4.7-metre great white shark that took his leg b...

GENEVA - The United States and Russia working in lockstep against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria. A rejuvenated truce that will compel President Bashar Assad’s a...