Category Archives: The Canadian Press

Champagne says boosting financial trade with China key to broader diversification
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne wrapped up a trip to Beijing where he said the governor of the Bank of Canada and other top Canadian financial officials met with Chinese counterpa...
Apr 03, 2026

Canadian man charged with terrorism after machete attack at Kenya mosque
NAIROBI - Police in Kenya say a Canadian man accused of wielding a machete and injuring almost half a dozen people at a mosque in Nairobi has pleaded not guilty. The East African country's Directorate...
Apr 03, 2026

These Ukrainians want to thrive in Canada. For most of them, the future is uncertain
TORONTO - After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, nearly 300,000 Ukrainians were welcomed in communities across Canada as part of an emergency visa program that allowed those flee...
Apr 03, 2026

New secularism law is looming over Way of the Cross marches on Good Friday in Quebec
MONTREAL - Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the C...
Apr 03, 2026

'Absolute betrayal': First Nations blast Eby in leaked transcript of DRIPA meeting
A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRI...
Apr 03, 2026

Does your single friend excel? Try a PowerPoint dating pitch
VANCOUVER - Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, i...
Apr 03, 2026

Myanmar’s parliament elects ruling general as president, keeping the army in charge
BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as th...
Apr 03, 2026

Cuba releasing 2,010 prisoners as the US pressures the island's government
HAVANA (AP) - The Cuban government said Thursday it would release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island's government with a suffocatin...
Apr 02, 2026

After crash, Tiger Woods told deputy he was 'talking to the president,' body camera shows
After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' ...
Apr 02, 2026

Vancouver police used Pokémon card sting. It was super effective!
VANCOUVER - Up until someone started using bear spray on unsuspecting victims trying to sell their Pokmon trading cards online, Vancouver police say they weren't aware of the resurgent collectible tre...
Apr 02, 2026