Category Archives: Canadian Press
Toronto Maple Leafs honour legendary broadcaster Bob Cole during Senators game
TORONTO - The Maple Leafs paid tribute to legendary broadcaster Bob Cole on Wednesday night. A video honouring the 85-year-old play-by-play icon was shown on the video screen during the first period o...
Feb 06, 2019
Former Jays skipper Gibbons to take break, hopes to return to game in 2020
TORONTO - Looking relaxed and refreshed in an off-season where he doesn’t have to worry about baseball plans, former Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Wednesday that he’s loving life and...
Feb 06, 2019
Venezuela's political fight could snarl rush to ship aid in
CUCUTA, Colombia - For Anahis Alvarado, whose battle with kidney failure has become more desperate as Venezuela sinks deeper into crisis, the prospect of bringing in emergency medical and food supplie...
Feb 06, 2019

Some workers still unpaid after shutdown, dread what's next
Nearly two weeks after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S history, many federal workers still have not received their back pay or have only gotten a fraction of what they are owed as go...
Feb 06, 2019
Trump introduces World Bank critic David Malpass to lead it
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday introduced David Malpass, a Treasury official he has nominated to lead the World Bank, as the “right person to take on this incredibly important ...
Feb 06, 2019
Financial watchdog to gut most of its payday lending rules
NEW YORK - The nation’s federal financial watchdog said Wednesday that it plans to abolish most of its critical consumer protections governing payday lenders. The move is a major win for the pay...
Feb 06, 2019
Infrastructure bill faces many potholes in months ahead
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pronounced himself eager to work with Congress on a plan to rebuild America’s crumbling roads and bridges, but offered no specifics during his State of the Un...
Feb 06, 2019

Paul Dewar, former NDP foreign affairs critic, dies of cancer at 56
OTTAWA - Paul Dewar, a teacher and union leader from Ottawa who became the New Democratic Party’s foreign affairs critic, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year. Despite st...
Feb 06, 2019

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' helps repair leaky space toilet: NASA
MONTREAL - As proof that life as an astronaut isn’t always glamorous, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques’ duties aboard the International Space Station recently included fixing a leaki...
Feb 06, 2019
B.C. political parties collect too much personal information, report says
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s main political parties must do a better job telling people about the information they’re collecting about them, says the provincial information and privacy co...
Feb 06, 2019