Category Archives: Canadian Press
Boy thwarts alleged abduction of five-year-old sister: Edmonton police
Edmonton police are praising the actions of a boy who they say thwarted the alleged abduction of his sister. Police say a man allegedly took the five-year-old girl who was riding her bike with her old...
Aug 15, 2017
"Deadpool 2" stuntwoman who died was a pioneering motorcycle racer
VANCOUVER - A stuntwoman killed while filming a scene for the movie “Deadpool 2” in Vancouver on Monday is being remembered as a pioneering motorcycle road racer who lived her life to the ...
Aug 15, 2017
Bell Aliant says double cable cut that led to cell outages was 'perfect storm'
HALIFAX - Bell Aliant says a widespread outage of its East Coast telecommunications network this month was the result of a “perfect storm” involving construction crews not checking where t...
Aug 15, 2017
Texas school official removed over book's supremacist symbol
DENTON, Texas - A Texas school district has removed an assistant principal from his post after he authored a children’s book whose central character is also a white nationalist symbol. The Dento...
Aug 15, 2017
Gainey, Glenn, Reilly named CFL top performers for Week 8 of the season
TORONTO - Saskatchewan defensive back Ed Gainey and quarterback Kevin Glenn and Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly are the CFL’s top performers for Week 8 Gainey's four interceptions led the way i...
Aug 15, 2017
Toronto FC defender Justin Morrow named MLS player of the week
NEW YORK - Toronto FC defender Justin Morrow has been voted Major League Soccer’s player of the week. Morrow’s first two-goal game in the league led Toronto to a 4-1 victory over the Portl...
Aug 15, 2017
Modest money: small sums obscure more than 40 per cent of federal fundraising
OTTAWA - Since the 2015 election, Canadians have donated nearly $75 million to the five political parties with seats in the House of Commons- but federal law makes it impossible to tell where more tha...
Aug 15, 2017
NAFTA glossary: Talk trade like a boss, with these negotiating terms
WASHINGTON - Negotiations start Wednesday for an update to the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement. This glossary of negotiating terms helps explain understand some of the underlyi...
Aug 15, 2017
As the laid-off struggle, high-tech US plants offer jobs
NORWOOD, Ohio - Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows - in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows ...
Aug 15, 2017
Roughriders acquire quarterback Adams in trade with Montreal Alouettes
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders acquired American quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. and a 2018 fifth-round pick from the Montreal Alouettes for Canadian defensive back Tevaughn Campbell and 2018-19 t...
Aug 15, 2017