Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week’s peacekeeping summit in Vancouver. A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Ca...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick woman who claims that her former Anglican minister and lover tried to kill her is suing him and the church for damages. Cynthia Mae Moore claims she had an extramari...

VANCOUVER - A family member of an Alberta man charged with the first-degree murder of a British Columbia police officer say the accused had been struggling since losing his wife five years ago. In a s...

OTTAWA - Two Liberal MPs are headed back to the U.S. in an effort to fend off a new surge of asylum seekers at the Canada-U.S. border following the latest shift in U.S. immigration policy. The Trump a...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Police in Prince Albert, Sask., say their website has been hacked by apparent supporters of ISIL. They say their site - papolice.ca - displayed a message this morning referencin...

BEIJING - U.S. and Chinese companies on Wednesday signed business deals the two sides valued at $9 billion during a visit by President Donald Trump in a tradition aimed at blunting criticism of Beijin...

NASHVILLE - Country star Keith Urban was honoured for his philanthropy and hit country songwriter Bob DiPiero was honoured as an icon by the performing rights organization BMI on Tuesday. The BMI Coun...

RICHMOND, Va. - A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former jo...

BEIJING - The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia (all times local): 3:50 p.m. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) are having tea at the start o...

PHILADELPHIA - A longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the police department scores of times, opposes the death penalty and promised to help hold bad officers accountable was elected Tuesday as ...