Category Archives: Canadian Press
Three Ontario Liberals, including two ministers, won't be seeking re-election
TORONTO - Ontario’s governing Liberals are scrambling to fill major gaps in their roster just two months before a spring vote after several long-serving legislators, including cabinet ministers,...
Apr 5, 2018
Alberta Health Services apologizes for invoice addressed to 'Treaty Indian'
EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services says a mistake on a form a decade ago using outdated language is to blame after a teenage Indigenous girl was sent an invoice addressed to “Treaty Indian.̶...
Apr 5, 2018
AP: Women file to run for US House seats in record numbers
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The number of women running for the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, most of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the R...
Apr 5, 2018
CSA finds corporate climate change risk reports failing to satisfy investors
CALGARY - A year-long review of climate change risk reporting by large Canadian publicly traded companies has found huge disparities in practices between corporations and industries but recommends no ...
Apr 5, 2018
Sens' Gaborik recovering after undergoing back surgery to repair herniated disc
Ottawa Senators forward Marian Gaborik is recovering after undergoing back surgery Thursday to repair a herniated disc. The 36-year-old Slovak, who has 21 points in 46 games this season, hasn’t ...
Apr 5, 2018
Trudeau says G7 summit chance to show citizens they can have confidence in future
QUEBEC - The annual G7 meeting remains useful and important because it helps citizens around the world continue to have confidence in the future, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. There is ...
Apr 5, 2018
Random police checks should be banned: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
HALIFAX - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is renewing his call for a ban on all random police street checks, saying the practice - sometimes known as carding - is a form of systemic racism. “Pe...
Apr 5, 2018
Talk of spring election growing in Prince Edward Island: political scientist
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Prince Edward Island government will table its 2018 budget Friday, amid what one observer says are growing signs of an early provincial election call. Don Desserud, a professor of ...
Apr 5, 2018
Missionaries at border spread Christianity to North Korea
SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China - To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese border region, she is known as “mom.” She feeds them, gives t...
Apr 5, 2018
Going off script, Trump bashes immigration at tax cut event
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. - Tossing his “boring” prepared remarks into the air, President Donald Trump on Thursday unleashed a fierce denunciation of the nation’s immigration poli...
Apr 5, 2018