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Canadian cyberspy agency says it disrupted foreign extremist activity
OTTAWA - Canada's cyberspy agency says it conducted operations in the last year to disrupt and remove harmful terrorist content spread online by foreign, ideologically motivated extremists. In its lat...
Jun 29, 2023

Canadian Chamber of Commerce wants B.C. port strike averted, cites economic impact
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says it is "deeply disturbed" the British Columbia port workers' union has served strike notice and is prepared to walk out on Saturday. The chamber has is...
Jun 29, 2023

P.A. women's football player back with Team Saskatchewan for National Championships
For the second straight year, a Prince Albert football player will represent Saskatchewan at the National Women's Under-18 Championship.Raelynn Sande, a former River Rider and current St. Mary student...
Jun 29, 2023

Greeceās left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, stepping down after crushing election defeat
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, announced his decision Thursday to step down after a crushing election defeat. Tsipras, 48, served as Greece's prime ministe...
Jun 29, 2023

UK appeals court rules that plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful
LONDON (AP) - A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. ...
Jun 29, 2023

In the news today: Potential gravesites found at Alberta residential school
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Search suggests 88 graves at Alberta residential school University of Alberta r...
Jun 29, 2023

Reconciliation sparks a reckoning for Canada Day fireworks displays
VANCOUVER - Chief Don Tom of the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says he's been known to "partake" in watching fireworks, as a way to bring families together. But on Canada Day, he wants peo...
Jun 29, 2023

Conservative voters less likely to be proud to be Canadian, new survey suggests
TORONTO - Canadians' pride in their nationality, like most things these days, seems to be divided down partisan lines, a new poll suggests. While a strong majority of the 1,512 respondents to the surv...
Jun 29, 2023

Search suggests 88 potential graves at residential school in northern Alberta
Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta. "I always had to stay on high alert when I was the...
Jun 29, 2023

Police arrest 150 as unrest spreads to multiple towns after 17-year-old driver killed by police
NANTERRE, France (AP) - Protesters angry after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy set cars and public buildings ablaze in Paris suburbs and unrest spread to some other French cities and towns, desp...
Jun 29, 2023