Category Archives: Canadian Press
Thousands vow to embrace Jersey Day: 'There's healing in the helping'
TORONTO - When office co-ordinator Jill Batten dons her 2010 Sidney Crosby Team Canada jersey on Thursday, she’ll be honouring more than just the 16 people who perished as a result of a Saskatch...
Apr 11, 2018
Ottawa, First Nations agree to work jointly on former army base land in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - The federal government and Treaty 1 First Nations have agreed to work together on a deal over a southwest Winnipeg military base that has been idle for 14 years. A news release says the agr...
Apr 11, 2018
Face of a killer? Police release new images in cold-case murders of B.C. couple
EVERETT, Wash. - Police in Washington state have released images of a man created through groundbreaking DNA technology that they say could help solve the murders of a young British Columbia couple mo...
Apr 11, 2018
Correction: Depression-Forgotten Black Workers story
DETROIT - In a story April 7 about black work camps during the Great Depression, The Associated Press, relying on information from the University of Michigan, erroneously reported that the photos the ...
Apr 11, 2018
Fed in March discussed 'slightly steeper' future rate hikes
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials signalled rising confidence last month that a strong economy will lift inflation closer to its 2 per cent target and that they may accelerate the Fed’s pac...
Apr 11, 2018
B.C.'s child watchdog quits after 14 months on job, heads back to New Brunswick
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s independent children’s advocate is quitting after 14 months on the job to return to his home province of New Brunswick. Bernard Richard, a former social worke...
Apr 11, 2018
Calgary truck company owner 'sorry' for hockey bus crash that killed 15
CALGARY - The owner of a trucking company involved in a horrific collision that killed 16 people on the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus says the tragedy has upended his life and he’s not...
Apr 11, 2018
Netflix pulls out of Cannes Film Festival in growing dispute
NEW YORK - Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says the streaming service is pulling its films from the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes earlier banned from its prestigious Palme d’Or competi...
Apr 11, 2018
Here are the top five GoFundMe campaigns
A GoFundMe campaign that has raised more than $9.2 million dollars for the victims of a fatal bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team is one of the online platform’s top-five...
Apr 11, 2018
Commentator loses 2nd job after Parkland survivor tweet
NEW YORK - A conservative commentator who tweeted about using “a hot poker” to sexually assault a 17-year-old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has lost a second St. Louis broad...
Apr 11, 2018