Category Archives: The Canadian Press
North Korea fires missiles toward sea after ridiculing South's hopes for better ties
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea Wednesday in its second launch event in two days, South Korea's military said, hours after a senior N...
Apr 07, 2026
Universities of Wisconsin board votes to fire system president after he refused to quit
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The board that runs the Universities of Wisconsin voted unanimously Tuesday to fire the system's president, drawing the ire of Republican lawmakers who called it a "partisan hatch...
Apr 07, 2026
Federal government wants court to toss out human rights decision against RCMP
The federal government says the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal wrongfully awarded compensation to both complainants and witnesses who claimed discrimination by the RCMP in an investigation of historic...
Apr 07, 2026
Federal government puts out $412.9 million to renew the Pacific Salmon Initiative
The federal government is spending $412.9 million over five years to renew the Pacific Salmon Strategy in a plan to protect and rebuild wild populations. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson made the an...
Apr 07, 2026
Pivotal Terrebonne byelection sees preliminary 20% voter turnout in advance polls
OTTAWA - Almost 38,000 people voted in the advance polls in three byelections that could give Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals a majority government, with the highest advance turnout in Terrebonn...
Apr 07, 2026
Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'truly unacceptable'
ROME (AP) - Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization was "truly unacceptable" and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate interna...
Apr 07, 2026
Advocates have little hope social housing needs in Quebec will be addressed soon
MONTREAL - Brique par brique, a non-profit that builds housing in Montreal, has been trying to develop more city-owned land for years, but the group says securing money for new projects is getting har...
Apr 07, 2026
Death of unhoused migrant in Montreal was avoidable, community workers say
MONTRAL - A Montreal community worker says she tried to help a 42-year-old undocumented migrant weeks before he died on the street in the Park Extension neighbourhood. Amina Saman works with a handful...
Apr 07, 2026
'War crimes': Iranian Canadians horrified by Trump's latest threat to destroy Iran
TORONTO - Foad Farhani was driving to work Tuesday morning when his wife called him in tears while reading U.S. President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social threatening the existence of their homelan...
Apr 07, 2026
Feds looking at how to 'cushion the blow' as gas prices rise amid Iran war: Carney
OTTAWA - The federal government is looking at ways to support Canadians as oil prices rise amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. Oil prices have surged sinc...
Apr 07, 2026