Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump’s calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republica...

TORONTO - About a year after Yi Jiang and her family moved to Ottawa from China, they found themselves sharing a two-bedroom apartment with her parents. After living together in Shenzhen, it seemed on...

SURREY, B.C. - Laura and Jen O’Connor got married for all the romantic, fairy-tale reasons: after seven years together, they were deeply in love and wanted to start a family. But on another leve...

OTTAWA - The share of the population that can speak both of Canada’s official languages hit an all-time high in 2016, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in its latest batch of census numbers -...

TORONTO - With their only child grown up with a family of her own, Louise Hutchison and Dave Sharp were enjoying the freedom of being empty-nesters: travelling, getting together with friends and, of c...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s latest batch of data from the 2016 census, this one focused on families, households, marital status and language: - The Canadian household averaged just 2.4 ...

OTTAWA - Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are blossoming, multiple generations are living under the same roof and more people than ever are liv...

PODGORICA, Montenegro - U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the future of Europe’s Balkan nations is in the West, reaffirming Washington’s commitment to the region as Russia...

WASHINGTON - The Senate has approved a pair of bills taking aim at urgent problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, clearing a $3.9 billion emergency spending package to fix a looming budget cri...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometres (2.6 miles) on Wednesday, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months...