Category Archives: Canadian Press
Quebec government defends against claims back-to-work law gives it too much power
QUEBEC - The Quebec Liberals defended their back-to-work bill Tuesday from accusations the law gives to much power to the government regarding negotiations between unions and private-sector constructi...
May 31, 2017
'Off the map,' 'dashboard warning': How intelligence vets see Kushner/Russia
WASHINGTON - Former members of America’s intelligence community are plumbing the depths of their reservoir of metaphors to express distress over news that the president’s son-in-law tried ...
May 31, 2017
US-backed Syrian fighters reach gates of IS capital of Raqqa
BEIRUT - U.S.-backed fighters on Tuesday reached the northern entrance of the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group, amid intense clashes and airstrikes on Raqqa’...
May 31, 2017
Fighting famine in Africa and Middle East starves terrorism: Bibeau
OTTAWA - Famine-ravaged countries in Africa and the Middle East will breed and spread terrorism if the world can’t help feed their people and give them hope, says Canada’s international de...
May 31, 2017
Family urges MMIW commissioners not to sweep results of inquiry under rug
WHITEHORSE - Frances Neumann searched tirelessly for her missing sister-in-law in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, only to learn from a newspaper article she had been dead for years. Neumann, the ...
May 31, 2017
Closing arguments expected this week in Ontario nurse's manslaughter trial
BARRIE, Ont. - Closing arguments are expected to begin Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of an Ontario nurse who took a woman off life support without a doctor’s order, with jurors set to begi...
May 31, 2017
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83
PANAMA CITY - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, a onetime U.S. ally who was ousted by an American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age 83. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela wrote i...
May 31, 2017
Woods found asleep at the wheel, no alcohol in his system
More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged Tuesday in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane ...
May 31, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Tuesday’s Games MLB American League Cleveland 9 Oakland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8 Baltimore 3 Texas 9 Tampa Bay 5 Houston 7 Minnesota 2 Kansas City 1 Detroit 0 Boston 13 Chicago White Sox 7 National Leag...
May 31, 2017
Tuesday's Games
Tuesday’s Games MLB American League Cleveland 9 Oakland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8 Baltimore 3 Texas 9 Tampa Bay 5 Houston 7 Minnesota 2 Kansas City 1 Detroit 0 Boston 13 Chicago White Sox 7 National Leag...
May 31, 2017