Category Archives: Canadian Press
Five stories in the news for today, Aug. 29
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 29 --- NEW BRUNSWICK PREMIER MAKING FINAL SOFTWOOD PITCH New Brunswick’s premier heads to Washington today to meet with a member of U.S. President Dona...
Aug 29, 2017
Inside Houston shelter, a loud and sometimes chaotic night
HOUSTON - With more guests than cots, some people slept on chairs or the floor. People hung towels and wet clothes on the base of the ceiling supports. Police officers guarded several entrances. Outsi...
Aug 29, 2017
Egypt: Bus, pick-up truck collide south of Cairo, killing 14
CAIRO - Egypt’s Health Ministry says 14 people were killed and 42 injured when a bus collided with a pick-up truck and then plunged from an overpass onto the road below. The ministry says Tuesda...
Aug 29, 2017
Train derails in India's third rail accident in 10 days
NEW DELHI - A passenger train derailed Tuesday in western India, the third rail accident in the country in 10 days. Rescuers were working to pull out people who were trapped in the toppled train engin...
Aug 29, 2017
Men between 19 and 59 new focus of B.C.'s deadly overdose epidemic
VANCOUVER - Too many men working in trades are overdosing on opioids, says a chief medical health officer in British Columbia who wants the industry to be involved in identifying interventions that co...
Aug 29, 2017
Liberals target students' skills gap with roll out of educational placement cash
OTTAWA - The federal government is making its biggest push yet into the country’s classrooms, hoping that millions in new spending will help students heading on to campuses to leave there better...
Aug 29, 2017
Taliban suicide bomber targets Kabul bank, kills 5 people
KABUL - A suicide bombing in a busy commercial area in Kabul near a string of banks and not far from the U.S. Embassy killed at least five people on Tuesday, Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed...
Aug 29, 2017
Two Quebec women among the many affected by Texas flooding
HOUSTON - Two Quebec women are among the thousands of people caught up in the flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey - one who can’t leave her home and one who has no idea when she can ret...
Aug 29, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Monday’s Games MLB American League Boston 6 Toronto 5 Baltimore 7 Seattle 6 Cleveland 6 N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 12 Kansas City 0 L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 1 National League Washington 11 Miami 2 Ph...
Aug 28, 2017
Monday's Games
Monday’s Games MLB American League Boston 6 Toronto 5 Baltimore 7 Seattle 6 Cleveland 6 N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 12 Kansas City 0 L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 1 National League Washington 11 Miami 2 Ph...
Aug 28, 2017