Category Archives: The Canadian Press

Ford says he won't apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with U.S.
OTTAWA - After Ontario's anti-tariff TV ad blitz scuttled trade talks, Premier Doug Ford vowed Monday he will "never apologize" for pushing back against hostile trade measures designed to poach jobs f...
Oct 27, 2025

World's oldest president, Paul Biya, wins Cameroon election at 92
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) - Cameroon 's top court on Monday declared incumbent Paul Biya, the world's oldest president, the winner of the Oct. 12 election. Clashes with security forces left at least four...
Oct 27, 2025

Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica and threatens to be the island's strongest recorded storm
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and wides...
Oct 27, 2025

Prime Minister Carney says he plans to meet with Chinese President Xi at APEC
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping while the pair are at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea. Carney said ...
Oct 27, 2025

In the news today: Alberta set to order end to mass teachers strike
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Alberta government set to table legislation to order striking teachers back to work The Alberta government is ...
Oct 27, 2025

'Courageous and strong' B.C. man dies three weeks after fighting off grizzly bear
A British Columbia man who fought off a grizzly bear in the East Kootenay region this month has died of his injuries, more than three weeks after the attack. Joe Pendry's wife, Janice Pendry, says he ...
Oct 27, 2025

Montreal's mayoral election is about affordability and the homeless -- and bike lanes
MONTREAL - In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor compari...
Oct 27, 2025

Canada's status as a country without endemic measles can now be revoked
TORONTO - Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark. The coun...
Oct 27, 2025
BR-Hunger-Report
TORONTO - A new Food Banks Canada report says Canada's hunger crisis is deepening. The organization's 2025 HungerCount report says monthly visits to food banks neared two-point-two million visits in M...
Oct 27, 2025

Food costs are spiralling. These Canadians are turning to food banks for help.
TORONTO - Sticker shock hit hard when single mom Kristina Kennedy saw the sausages she usually buys were $1.50 more than expected. As the sole caregiver to four children, the 40-year-old says price hi...
Oct 27, 2025