Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a retired judge on Thursday to chair a public inquiry into the devastating west London fire that killed at least 80 people, as more high-rise buil...

HALIFAX - Inclusive education is largely failing both special needs students and their peers in Nova Scotia, a new report says. The independent commission on inclusive education, struck three months a...

TORONTO - Several child protection groups are warning that Snapchat’s new location-sharing feature could allow predators to more easily track young people. The Canadian Centre for Child Protecti...

DES MOINES, Iowa - A man who helped write the computer code behind several U.S. lotteries, including some of its biggest, pleaded guilty Thursday to masterminding a scheme through which he rigged the ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Leading global fashion brands and trade unions agreed Thursday to continue a safety program involving thousands of garment factories in Bangladesh for another three years. Two Swit...

PHILADELPHIA - The city’s top prosecutor pleaded guilty Thursday to a corruption charge, resigned from office and was sent immediately to jail by a judge who said he couldn’t be trusted. I...

BEIRUT - U.S.-backed fighters have seized the last road into Raqqa and are moving eastward along the river south of the city, almost completing the siege on the militants’ de-facto capital, U.S....

MONTREAL - Magali Harvey, international women’s rugby player of the year in 2014, was named coach of the McGill University Martlets on Thursday. Harvey, 26, helped Canada win gold at the 2015 Pa...

CFB TRENTON, Ont. - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will start the second day of their royal tour at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, where the couple will meet members of the military ...

TORONTO - A constitutional challenge to Canada’s segregation laws scheduled to be heard in September should be put on ice in light of proposed legislation and policy changes that will address th...