Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nebraska approves alternative route for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline
CALGARY - Nebraska regulators approved passage of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline Monday, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle for the controversial $10-billion project but creating a ne...
Nov 20, 2017
Tie new affordable housing money to outcomes, former watchdog tells Liberals
OTTAWA - Parliament’s first budget watchdog is warning the federal government to be careful how it spends billions in new housing money over the next decade to ensure it actually makes a lasting...
Nov 20, 2017
Tap young talent on looming security issues, Google executive urges
HALIFAX - One of the world’s top technology executives is urging democratic countries to turn to youth in a bid to find innovative solutions to looming security problems. Eric Schmidt, executive...
Nov 20, 2017
Women dominate American Music Awards, but not as nominees
This year’s American Music Awards was a reflection of the year in pop music, with women dominating the show, but not as nominees or winners. In categories like artist of the year and favourite p...
Nov 20, 2017
Bounty offered for beheadings of Bollywood director, actress
NEW DELHI - A member of India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party offered 100 million rupees ($1.5 million) to anyone who beheads the lead actress and the director of an unreleased Bollywood film &...
Nov 20, 2017
World Cup bribes, death threats: Corrupt world of FIFA
Hour after hour in a New York City courtroom, the schemes to corrupt world soccer are spilling out. The millions of dollars in “inducements” to secure contracts to televise matches. The br...
Nov 20, 2017
Charles Manson used charm to turn youths into mass killers
LOS ANGELES - In summer 1969, a scruffy ex-convict with a magnetic hold on young women sent some of his disciples into the night to carry out a series of gruesome killings in Los Angeles. In so doing,...
Nov 19, 2017
3 dead after medical helicopter crash in eastern Arkansas
DEWITT, Ark. - A pilot and two medical personnel were killed when a medical helicopter that was flying to a hospital in eastern Arkansas crashed in a rural area Sunday night. No patients were on board...
Nov 19, 2017
Suu Kyi blames world conflicts partly on illegal immigration
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday that the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism, as her country faces accusatio...
Nov 19, 2017
Charles Manson, whose brutality made him face of evil, dead
LOS ANGELES - Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after masterminding the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in...
Nov 19, 2017