Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government had barely been in power for an hour Friday before it was under attack about the perceived lack of diversity in its cabinet. Shortly befor...

JOHANNESBURG - A cease-fire began at midnight Saturday in South Sudan as a weary nation wondered whether this latest attempt to end a five-year civil war would hold. President Salva Kiir and rival Rie...

WINNIPEG - Canada’s health ministers say they are moving closer to a national pharmacare program, but questions remain over who will pay for it and how broad it will be. After meeting with her p...

NEW YORK - The Quebec government will wait for its lawyers to study a court decision this week that temporarily suspended a law banning people from covering their faces when receiving or giving a publ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - A federal judge says Kentucky can’t require poor people to get a job to keep their Medicaid benefits, chastising President Donald Trump’s administration for rubber-stampin...

ATLANTA - Georgia’s highest court has reversed the convictions of a man who pleaded guilty to a gang charge after he was accused of shooting into rapper Lil Wayne’s tour buses on a Georgia...

OTTAWA - The Order of Canada is getting 99 new members in 2018. Here’s a list: Companions of the Order Roberta Bondar, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., astronaut, educator. Beverley McLachlin, Ottawa, lo...

OTTAWA - He was ripped from his family as a child and placed in a residential school. He survived abuse at the school and later went on to become a lifelong advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peopl...

Toronto FC’s up-and-down MLS season hit a low in last week’s 2-1 loss at New York City FC. The 68th-minute winning goal by Norwegian striker Jo Inge Berget was an ugly snapshot of what has...

The Canadian government has responded to the Trump administration’s decision to apply tariffs on steel and aluminum by imposing retaliatory tariffs effective Sunday on $16.6 billion worth of Ame...