Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Clayton Kershaw to retire after 2025 season, Dodgers announce
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw will retire following the 2025 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday. The 37-year-old left-hander who got his 3,000th s...
Sep 18, 2025
'Uncle Osama': Iran-born B.C. RCMP officer not offended by terrorist jokes
A British Columbia RCMP officer who was born in Iran says he wasn't offended when fellow officers made jokes about terrorism and referred to him as "Uncle Osama." Coquitlam RCMP Const. Mersad Mesbah h...
Sep 18, 2025
No tsunami threat to B.C. after 7.8-magnitude quake off Russia
VANCOUVER - Authorities have announced there was no tsunami risk to British Columbia's coast after a brief scare triggered by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, in the same ...
Sep 18, 2025
Alberta professor put on leave as ripple effects of Charlie Kirk's death continue
EDMONTON - The ripple effects of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's killing continued to be felt across Canada on Thursday as an Alberta university confirmed it was facing threats, and a major TV ...
Sep 18, 2025
US once again vetoes Security Council resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire, hostage release
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States once again vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Thursday that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages after s...
Sep 18, 2025
Fraser says request for limits on notwithstanding clause not just about Quebec
OTTAWA - The federal government's request to Canada's top court for limits on the notwithstanding clause isn't only about Quebec's secularism law, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Thursday. In a m...
Sep 18, 2025
Fact File: Bay of Fundy 'tide-millers' little more than a tall tale
A Facebook post recounting the ahead-of-its-time ingenuity of so-called "tide-millers" in Nova Scotia in the 18th century caught the attention of readers in early September. The post, which included a...
Sep 18, 2025
U.S. ambassador to Canada disappointed by 'anti-American' rhetoric, 'elbows up'
HALIFAX - The U.S. ambassador to Canada took aim at those who use the term "trade war" to describe economic tension between the two countries at an event in Halifax Thursday, saying he was frustrated ...
Sep 18, 2025
Training for docs coming as women wait years in pain for endometriosis diagnoses
TORONTO - Katie Luciani spent years being told that her weeklong debilitating pain every month was a "normal" part of getting her period. "My symptoms showed up when I was 11," said Luciani, who is no...
Sep 18, 2025
Carney taps top aide David Lametti to replace Bob Rae as UN ambassador
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his principal secretary David Lametti as Canada's next ambassador to the United Nations. The Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday that Lametti, ...
Sep 18, 2025