Category Archives: Canadian Press

GRANBY, Que. - Quebec public health officials are trying to determine the source of contamination that is causing an abnormally high number of cases of legionnaires’ disease in a town east of Mo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Organizers say as many as 100,000 people are expected as the much-watched Chase the Ace draw ends Wednesday night in a church hall outside St. John’s. The provincial gov...

OTTAWA - The estate of a Chicago photographer whose vivid street scenes have won her posthumous plaudits is asking a Canadian court to prohibit a Toronto gallery from showing or selling her work. Vivi...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Darshan Kang is vehemently denying allegations that he repeatedly sexually harassed a young female staffer in his Calgary constituency office and is vowing to defend his reputation...

PARIS - French doctor Frederic Mailliez, the first physician on the scene of Princess Diana’s fatal car accident in Paris 20 years ago, says he gave first aid to the victims before knowing who h...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government is expected to announce Wednesday a promised independent review of forestry practices in a province where clear cutting remains highly controversial. T...

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s ethnically-mixed Kirkuk province, long claimed by both the Arab-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region, voted Tuesday to take part in a vote on Kurdish indepen...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP announced Tuesday it has tripled membership numbers during its leadership race. The NDP says it has more than 124,000 card-carrying members eligible to vote for the next leade...

OTTAWA - Canadian soldiers have been quietly helping Jordan and Lebanon secure their borders amid fears of Islamic State fighters slipping from Iraq and Syria to launch attacks in Europe and North Ame...

NEW YORK - A federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a defamation lawsuit by Sarah Palin against The New York Times, saying the former Alaska governor failed to show the newspaper knew it was publishing f...