Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...

BEIRUT - The Lebanese military is now in control of over 80 per cent of the areas previously held by the Islamic State group along the border with Syria, only days after launching a broad offensive th...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s atomic chief said Tuesday the Islamic Republic needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 per cent, a level at which the material could quickly be further...

TOKYO - Japan’s new foreign minister is a reputed renegade, famous for bashing his ruling party’s policies with stands against nuclear power and for stricter checks on foreign aid. Taro Ko...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives as unconstitutional. The bench, comprising five senior judges of dif...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government finally moved on a contentious piece of labour legislation Tuesday, effectively imposing a wage package on the province’s 75,000 public sector em...

MOSCOW - In a move that sent a shockwave through Russia’s art community, investigators on Tuesday detained a prominent theatre director famous for his biting satire of Russian officialdom on cha...

MADRID - An extremist cell was preparing bombs for an imam who planned to blow himself up at a Barcelona monument, a key suspect in the attacks that killed 15 people in northeastern Spain told a judge...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 22 --- VOLUME OF OPIOIDS PRESCRIBED DOWN IN ONTARIO Ontario doctors appear to be prescribing lower overall amounts of opioids, say researchers, but many long...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s largest seniors benefit program is on course for all-time highs in spending over the coming years with waves of baby boomer retirements - spending levels that c...