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Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade resigns for 'the good of the party'
MONTREAL - Dominique Anglade is resigning as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, five weeks after the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat in the provincial election. Anglade told reporters today she i...
Nov 07, 2022

Military investigating after Canadian soldier dies in Iraq
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating the death of a Winnipeg-based soldier who was serving in Iraq. Capt. Eric Cheung, 38, died Saturday under what the military is calling "non-...
Nov 07, 2022

Presidential push: Biden, Obama, Trump stump before Tuesday's midterm elections
WASHINGTON - Presidents past and present are making one final push as the 2022 U.S. midterm election campaigns finally approach the finish line. Joe Biden and Barack Obama reunited the 2008 Democratic...
Nov 07, 2022

Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: 'It was now or never'
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she'd done befor...
Nov 07, 2022

Health ministers meeting, Emergencies Act inquiry continues : In The News for Nov. 7
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 7 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Nov 07, 2022

'We are resilient': Hay River, N.W.T., still recovering months after historic flood
HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - Kandis Jameson remembers hearing trees on the shore of the Hay River "snapping like toothpicks" as water levels quickly rose this spring. "It was the eeriest feeling," the mayor of...
Nov 07, 2022

Quebec's highest court to begin hearing appeals on provincial secularism law
MONTREAL - Quebec's highest court is set to begin hearing appeals on the constitutionality of the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21. Both the Quebec government and groups opposing the law ar...
Nov 07, 2022

Monkeypox 'almost eradicated' in Montreal, once epicentre of virus outbreak in Canada
MONTREAL - Once the epicentre of Canada's monkeypox outbreak, Montreal has almost eradicated the virus on its territory, according to doctors in the city - but they warn it's too early to declare vict...
Nov 07, 2022

Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos II dies at 81
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the outspoken leader of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Christian Church whose forays into the country's complex politics and finances fired up supporters and...
Nov 06, 2022

Content former No 1 Ash Barty rules out tennis comeback
MELBOURNE (AP) - Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has emphatically ruled out ever making a comeback to tennis, or switching to another sport. Launching her autobiography at Melbourne Park - scene of her A...
Nov 06, 2022