Category Archives: Canadian Press
African youth opposition movement aims to drive change
NAIROBI, Kenya - Popular young opposition leaders from East Africa are uniting with like-minded colleagues in West and Southern Africa to form a movement to challenge the misrule that has plagued the ...
Oct 13, 2018
A look at numbers for Smiths Falls, Ont., home of a Canadian cannabis giant
OTTAWA - The small Ontario community of Smiths Falls is home to Tweed Inc. and its parent company Canopy Growth Corp., which make up one of the biggest licensed cannabis producers in the world. Locals...
Oct 13, 2018
The elephant in the tower: parliamentary bells will play on despite renos
OTTAWA - In less than three months, the centrepiece on Parliament Hill will go dark for at least a decade. But thanks in part to the lobbying efforts of the official national bell ringer you probably ...
Oct 13, 2018
High times: optimism in Smiths Falls, the little town that marijuana saved
SMITHS FALLS, Ont. - The place pot put on the map, weed capital of Canada, the little town that marijuana saved - folks in Smiths Falls have many ways of describing their community’s transformat...
Oct 13, 2018
Old Fort, B.C., residents in holding pattern as landslide inches toward homes
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - Residents of a tight-knit community in northern British Columbia are struggling without answers about when they can return home as scientists try to determine if a nearby slow mo...
Oct 13, 2018
Searches intensify after body is found in Michael's wake
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. - Rescuers intensified efforts Saturday to find survivors who might be trapped amid the ruins of a small Florida Panhandle community nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, where o...
Oct 13, 2018
US pastor freed from Turkey prays with Trump in Oval Office
WASHINGTON - Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson fell to one knee in the Oval Office and placed his hand on President Donald Trump’s shoulder in prayer on Saturday, asking God to provide the pr...
Oct 13, 2018
Saudi Arabia, Turkey have no US ambassadors amid crisis
WASHINGTON - The disappearance of journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi after visiting a Saudi consulate in Turkey has thrown the large number of diplomatic vacancies under President Donald Tru...
Oct 13, 2018
IMF-World Bank ends meetings with call to brace for risks
NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Global financial leaders wrapped up an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Saturday by urging countries to brace for potential risks from trade di...
Oct 13, 2018
27 dead in floods, landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, including a dozen children at a school, officials said Satu...
Oct 13, 2018