Category Archives: Canadian Press
Egypt census workers detect another baby boom
CAIRO - Census workers going door to door in Egypt’s teeming neighbourhoods and crowded towns are discovering a new country - of more than 20 million people born in the last decade alone. Family...
Jun 22, 2017
Soldier who lost 4 limbs opening retreat to help others
ROME, Maine - Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills awoke in a hospital on his 25th birthday to learn that an explosion in Afghanistan had robbed him of all four limbs. He later told his wife to take their dau...
Jun 22, 2017
Swift acquittal for former Milwaukee cop charged in shooting
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee jury needed less than two days of deliberations to acquit a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that sparked two nights of violence on the ci...
Jun 22, 2017
Attitudes, legal standards help make police convictions rare
PHILADELPHIA - In the three years since fatal police shootings of unarmed black people launched the Black Lives Matter movement, few officers have been charged and none has been convicted by juries in...
Jun 22, 2017
AP Analysis: Saudi shakeup, Qatar crisis show a Gulf on edge
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - There was a time when the mention of the Persian Gulf brought to mind images of pampered societies ruled by aging monarchs content to preside quietly over their oil money...
Jun 22, 2017
Senate passes budget unchanged but reasserts right to amend money bills
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s budget bill passed the Senate without amendments Thursday, but the broader dispute over which parliamentary chamber has the right to decide budgetary matters wa...
Jun 22, 2017
Sears Canada cutting 2,900 jobs, closing 59 stores, secures creditor protection
TORONTO - Sears Canada will close 59 stores and cut approximately 2,900 jobs under a court-supervised restructuring, the beleaguered retailer said Thursday following years of dwindling sales and a rev...
Jun 22, 2017
Power still off for 400 properties in Red Deer after Tuesday's windstorm
RED DEER, Alta. - The City of Red Deer says 400 homes and business are still without power after a violent windstorm hit central Alberta earlier this week. In an update on its website, the city says i...
Jun 22, 2017
Report recommends change in funding of Canada's Olympians and Paralympians
A shake-up is coming in how Canada pays for its athletes to win Olympic and Paralympic medals. The Department of Canadian Heritage, with Sport Canada under its umbrella, released a report Thursday fro...
Jun 22, 2017
Student detained in N Korea is mourned at hometown funeral
WYOMING, Ohio - Celebrating the life of an American college student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after returning home in a coma, a packed crowd of mourners gathered...
Jun 22, 2017