Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Over the summer with the kids away, construction crews have hastily been erecting temporary, metal-clad extensions to aging school buildings across Montreal, to help cope with ever-increasi...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks rose on Wall Street, sending the Nasdaq above 8,000 for the first time, after the White House said it has re...

Want to play in the Canadian Premier League? Here’s your chance. The fledgling Canadian pro soccer league is holding open tryouts for men 16 and over in seven Canadian cities, starting Sept. 20 ...

FREDERICTON - The lawyer for a Fredericton man, accused of killing four people, including two city police officers in a shooting spree this month, says he expects to eventually enter pleas of not guil...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Iran warned Monday that re-imposed U.S. sanctions would cripple its economy and plunge the volatile Middle East deeper into crisis as it urged the United Nations’ highes...

PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain expressed his deep gratitude and love of country in his final letter and implored Americans to put aside “tribal rivalries” and focus on what unites. Rick Davis,...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron pushed Monday for Europe to take more responsibility for its own defence, saying the continent’s security shouldn’t rely so much on the United Stat...

CANBERRA, Australia - The first asylum seeker boat has reached Australia in more than four years, a government minister said Monday, as new concerns were raised about the psychological state of childr...

HANOI, Vietnam - Sen. John McCain’s Vietnamese jailer said he respected his former inmate and felt sad about his death, as others in Vietnam paid their respects to the former U.S. Navy pilot who...

TORONTO - A&W’s “Burgers to Beat MS” campaign, spearheaded by Christine Sinclair, raised more than $1.9 million this year. It’s the second year the Canadian soccer captain,...