Category Archives: Canadian Press

JERUSALEM - A string of protests by ultra-Orthodox Jewish activists against Israel’s compulsory military service has paralyzed Jerusalem in recent weeks in what their leaders had hoped would be ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s first lady has moved a dramatic step closer to succeeding her husband as leader. President Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state, this week fired lo...

WASHINGTON - Kirstjen Nielsen helped shepherd President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security secretary pick through his Senate confirmation process. Now she’s got her own team gu...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump handily won the election a year ago Wednesday. Ask him and he’ll tell you about it. Ten months into his presidency, Trump is still focused - some say fixated - on the e...

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - The gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicated. The re...

DANANG, Vietnam - Foreign and trade ministers of 21 Pacific Rim economies meeting in Danang, Vietnam, appeared to be struggling for a consensus on open markets and other strategic issues ahead of a re...

WASHINGTON - The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might h...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. - Barbara Patton scans the expansive beach on Washington’s outer coast looking for telltale signs of dead seabirds: a feather sticking straight up, dark colours in the sand, ...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without star centre Auston Matthews when they host the Minnesota Wild tonight. Leafs coach Mike Babcock confirmed that Matthews is out day-to-day with what th...

TORONTO - While working as a sexual health educator in Calgary several years ago, artist and activist Mikiki would often gently correct clients who said they had never met a gay person. Actually, you ...