Category Archives: Canadian Press

BAGHDAD - A massive bombing by the Islamic State group outside a popular ice cream parlour in central Baghdad and a rush- hour car bomb in another downtown area killed at least 31 people Tuesday, Iraq...

Five stories in the news for Monday, May 29 --- SCHEER TO DEBUT IN COMMONS TODAY AS OPPOSITION LEADER New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is expected to gather fellow MPs and senators together in Ot...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government tabled a bill Monday forcing the province’s striking construction workers back on the job by Wednesday. In response, a coalition of construction unions promised ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs who weathered months of friendly political fire from fellow leadership rivals trained their sights back on the Liberal benches Monday as they rallied around newly elected lea...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia teachers and other school staff faced violence or threats of violence about 1,800 times in the last school year, according to data provided by the Department of Education. The pr...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the first conquest of Mount Everest 64 years ago on Monday, as well as this year’s climbing season, during which hundreds sca...

ATLANTA - Democrats hope to enlist military veterans in another type of fight - for majority control of the House. Looking ahead to next year’s elections, Democrats are trying to recruit at leas...

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is defending an alleged effort by top White House adviser Jared Kushner to create back-channel communications with Russia as a “good thing,...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court may soon decide how courts are supposed to view presidential power in the age of Donald Trump. The administration has promised a high court appeal of a ruling blocking t...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is assailing internal leaks as he considers an overhaul of his White House staff and grapples with a burgeoning crisis involving alleged Russian meddling in the 201...