Category Archives: Canadian Press

MONTREAL - A record number of homes were sold in the Montreal area last month, the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board said Tuesday amid concerns that a foreign buyers’ tax in Toronto could be ha...

CANBERRA, Australia - A gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage before dying in a police shootout had been acquitted of plotting a terror attack at a Sydney army base years earlier, police sa...

LONDON - Police investigating the Manchester bombing freed three more people without charge, including the bomber’s brother, and released more photos Tuesday as they worked to reconstruct the ki...

GANZHOU, China - China’s government on Tuesday rejected a U.S. State Department call to release three activists detained while investigating a factory that produced shoes for Ivanka Trump and ot...

BEIRUT - A U.S.-backed Syrian force said Tuesday it has begun an offensive to capture the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group, after months of clearing operations. ...

OTTAWA - A government source says the former U.S. embassy across from Parliament Hill is set to become a space dedicated to First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. The federal government is expected to...

MANILA, Philippines - It was an audacious plot sketched in chilling detail with blue pens on the back of a paper calendar: Islamic militants in the Philippines, including one of the world’s most...

WASHINGTON - In its effort to regain control of its message, the White House has curtailed press briefings, redirected questions on the Russia investigation to an outside lawyer and planned a major in...

WASHINGTON - Conservative groups are wasting little time in trying to deal a crippling blow to labour unions now that Justice Neil Gorsuch has joined the Supreme Court. A First Amendment clash over pu...

KABUL - Afghanistan’s president said Tuesday that last week’s suicide truck bombing in the heart of the capital killed more than 150 people, making it the deadliest single attack in the co...