Category Archives: Canadian Press
Norway's $1 trillion fund to dump oil and gas shares
STAVANGER, Norway - Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund, the biggest of its kind in the world, will begin dumping shares in oil and gas companies, but stopped short of barring major producers like ...
Mar 08, 2019

Whoopi Goldberg says she nearly died from pneumonia
NEW YORK - Whoopi Goldberg says she nearly died of pneumonia. Appearing Friday in a video that aired on ABC’s “The View,” Goldberg told the audience she had pneumonia in both lungs. ...
Mar 08, 2019
US adds just 20K jobs; unemployment dips to 3.8 pct.
WASHINGTON - Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a half. The slowdown in hiring, though, might have been depressed b...
Mar 08, 2019

NHL GMs say trade deadline arms race in the Western Conference no surprise
Kevin Cheveldayoff joked the trade deadline was “just another Monday.” It wasn’t. The point the Winnipeg Jets general manager was attempting to make, however, was nothing comes easy ...
Mar 08, 2019

Western Ontario's football program placing an emphasis on player safety
Winning is important to longtime football coach Greg Marshall, but not at the expense of player safety. Marshall has won plenty in the game. He captured the 1980 Hec Crighton Trophy as a running back ...
Mar 08, 2019

Player safety is now a top priority in Canadian amateur football circles
TORONTO - He has played Canadian university football and coached the game, but Todd Smith is waiting before he lets his two sons get on the field. “I’m not in a rush to put my kids into fo...
Mar 08, 2019
'It's all I know:' Canadian driver Robert Wickens says he will return to racing
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Robert Wickens says he will be in a race car again, saying it’s “all I know.” Sitting in a wheelchair and looking to be in good spirits, the Canadian driver ta...
Mar 08, 2019

Freeland thanks U.S. lawmakers for bipartisan support on Meng arrest
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland applauded Friday a bipartisan American political effort backing Canada in its fight with China over its detention of Huawei’s chief financial ...
Mar 08, 2019
Bill Shine resigns White House communications post
WASHINGTON - Former Fox News executive Bill Shine has resigned as White House communications director and has joined President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign as a senior adviser. White Hous...
Mar 08, 2019

Puerto Rico's Farruko pleads guilty to not declaring cash
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican singer Farruko has pleaded guilty to not declaring nearly $52,000 in cash discovered in his luggage and shoes when he arrived in the U.S. territory from the Domini...
Mar 08, 2019