Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nova Scotia buildings to feed solar power to grid under new program
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia - a province often perceived as rainy and windswept - is testing its potential for solar energy generation. Peter Craig, a provincial Energy Department official who helped unveil...
Nov 10, 2017
Trudeau holds "very direct" talk with Myanmar's Suu Kyi about state-led violence
DANANG, Vietnam - Justin Trudeau used a face-to-face meeting Friday with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to lay out some of the evidence he has seen on the state-led violence that has shaken h...
Nov 10, 2017
Five things to know about rising Canadian basketball star R.J. Barrett
Canadian basketball phenom R.J. Barrett is slated to announce which college program he plans to join next year. Here are five things to know about the budding young star: BIOGRAPHICAL BASICS Rowan ...
Nov 10, 2017
Flybe plane makes emergency landing at Belfast airport
LONDON - A Flybe plane carrying more than 50 people has made an emergency landing without its nose gear at Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland. The Bombardier Q-400 took off from Belfast...
Nov 10, 2017
Tippin secures Pool A, Howard remains perfect at Road to the Roar pre-trials
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - Julie Tippin of Woodstock, Ont., locked up first place in Pool A with a 6-5 win over Tracy Fleury of Sudbury, Ont., on Friday at the Road to the Roar Olympic curling pre-trials. T...
Nov 10, 2017
Trained hawks scare off smaller birds, draw stares in LA
LOS ANGELES - A hawk named Riley soars between high-rises in downtown Los Angeles. Smaller birds take notice. And take flight. Riley lands on a branch, surveys the concrete jungle below and swoops dow...
Nov 10, 2017
Ottawa proposing legal weed tax of at least $1 per gram, plus GST/HST
Ottawa and the provinces and territories could have another $1 billion a year in tax revenues to split after pot becomes legal next year. Liberal MP Bill Blair, former Toronto police chief and the Tru...
Nov 10, 2017
Senate GOP proposes to delay major corporate tax cut a year
WASHINGTON - Sweeping tax legislation from Senate Republicans includes a one-year delay in plans for a major corporate tax cut despite strident opposition from the White House and others in their own ...
Nov 10, 2017
After IS collapse, Syria government faces US-backed Kurds
BEIRUT - With the fall of the Islamic State group’s last significant stronghold in Syria, Iranian and Russian-backed Syrian troops now turn to face off with their main rival, the U.S.-backed for...
Nov 10, 2017
Different laws and databases affect gun background checks
Devin Kelley, who carried out the massacre at a Texas church, was able to buy four guns even though he had been convicted in the Air Force of domestic violence. Yet he was denied a Texas permit to car...
Nov 10, 2017