Category Archives: Canadian Press
Seven stories in the news for today, June 15
Seven stories in the news for Thursday, June 15 --- TRUMP SELECTS NEW AMBASSADOR TO CANADA U.S. President Donald Trump has a selected a big-money political donor and philanthropist with ties to the co...
Jun 15, 2017
N.S. cabinet unveiled: Casey now deputy premier, finance minister
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil shuffled the deck with his 17-member cabinet Thursday, adding three new faces while shifting three veteran members to key posts, including the minister who...
Jun 15, 2017
Rise of the machines: Canadian retailers on 'cusp' of using more robotics
TORONTO - Back in 2009, Sobeys found itself at a crossroads. Labour costs were rising, employee productivity was waning and the grocer knew that it had to keep building bigger distribution centres to ...
Jun 15, 2017
Liberal national security bill to boost federal border agency accountability
OTTAWA - The Liberal government plans to introduce wide-ranging national security legislation next week that will include more robust oversight of Canada’s border agency. In addition to new eyes...
Jun 15, 2017
Senator wonders if it's time for a Mi'kmaq seat in Nova Scotia legislature
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia senator says the time may be right to re-examine the establishment of a Mi’kmaq seat in the provincial legislature - and the premier says his government is open to it too...
Jun 15, 2017
'Poor moral judgment:' Hearing told La Loche shooter has PTSD, suicidal thoughts
MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A psychiatrist says that a teenager who gunned down four people in northern Saskatchewan has symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and flashbacks which have led to suicidal t...
Jun 15, 2017
Aerialist daredevil hangs by teeth from chopper over Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A trapeze artist from a renowned family of daredevils hung by her teeth Thursday as a helicopter carried her above the thunder of Niagara Falls in a stunt that grabbed internatio...
Jun 15, 2017
Deadlocked jury in Cosby trial wraps up for the night
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Four days after getting the case, deadlocked jurors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial struggled to end their impasse Thursday on charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2...
Jun 15, 2017
Rodman's gives Kim the gift of Trump: "The Art of the Deal"
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Dennis Rodman has delivered a message from President Donald Trump to North Korea - sort of. On Thursday, the former NBA player gave the countr...
Jun 15, 2017
Three people dead after house fire in Hamilton
HAMILTON - Three people lost their lives in a fire that tore through a home in Hamilton early Thursday. The flames broke out shortly after midnight and when firefighters arrived, they found heavy smok...
Jun 15, 2017