Category Archives: Canadian Press
Trump adviser says GOP candidates should embrace president
WASHINGTON - The White House has a message for vulnerable House Republicans tiptoeing around President Donald Trump: Get on board or start packing. The warning comes in a memo from White House politic...
Oct 04, 2018
Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court
SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn’t buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn’t want people strolling onto...
Oct 04, 2018
Vice-President Pence accuses China of meddling in US
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence charged Thursday that Russia’s influence operations in America pale in comparison with the covert and overt activities China is taking to interfere in the ...
Oct 04, 2018
Another rare fish pulled back from extinction
DENVER - Another rare Colorado River fish has been pulled back from the brink of extinction, wildlife officials said Thursday, the second comeback this year for a species unique to the Southwestern U....
Oct 04, 2018
Mural of ex-inmates seeks public input on mass incarceration
PHILADELPHIA - For nearly two decades, Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building has been home to a bronze sculpture of Frank Rizzo, the polarizing, tough-on-crime former mayor and police commi...
Oct 04, 2018
'Some baloney' in Trudeau's claims about supply management under new trade deal
OTTAWA - “We have a supply management system that continues to be very much in place to protect both our agricultural sector and our consumers. This is something that continues. We have made mod...
Oct 04, 2018
Russia accused of targeting chemical weapons watchdog
BRUSSELS - The Dutch defence minister on Thursday accused Russia’s military intelligence unit of attempted cybercrimes targeting the international chemical weapons watchdog and the investigation...
Oct 04, 2018
A barrage of cards for N.S. widower: 'I'm amazed and I'm so thankful'
SYDNEY, N.S. - A delighted Nova Scotia widower has received nearly a thousand letters from around the world, days after his daughter invited people to send him cards as he approached his first birthda...
Oct 04, 2018
Warrant: Florida mom who left baby in car waited to get help
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - A Florida woman is accused of leaving her toddler in a hot car for more than eight hours and waiting before driving him to a hospital. News outlets report 34-year-old Emily Bird...
Oct 04, 2018
7 Turkish soldiers killed in blast blamed on Kurdish rebels
ANKARA, Turkey - Kurdish rebels detonated an explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least seven soldiers on Thursday, officials said. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack....
Oct 04, 2018