Category Archives: Canadian Press
Payday lenders starting to feel pinch from new Alberta regulations
CALGARY - The garish yellow storefronts promising quick and easy cash are starting to dwindle in Alberta as the payday loan industry says provincial regulations put in place last year have made its si...
May 14, 2017
Nova Scotia election: Why health care has become the number-one issue
HALIFAX - For Janet Glazebrook, having to beg a doctor to test her sister for hip fractures after waiting hours in a crowded emergency room helped determine her vote in Nova Scotia’s May 30 elec...
May 14, 2017
Uranium mine cleanup moves ahead, but Saskatchewan is left with ballooning cost
URANIUM CITY, Sask. - The total price tag was estimated at under $25 million when the federal government agreed to pay for half the cleanup of a radioactive Cold-War-era uranium mine in northern Saska...
May 14, 2017
Victim wants adult sentence for school shooter who killed 4, wounded 7
REGINA - The last time Charlene Klyne was in the same room as the teenager convicted in a deadly school shooting in Saskatchewan, he opened fire and shot her in the face. Klyne, who lost her sight aft...
May 14, 2017
Blizzard of embers sparked fires that burned Fort McMurray homes last year
EDMONTON - A wildfire expert says a blizzard of blazing embers that were blown by the wind over fireguards and a river sparked the flames that destroyed homes in Fort McMurray last spring and then spr...
May 14, 2017
An alert researcher, teamwork helped stem huge cyberattack
LONDON - The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was thwarted by a young British researcher and an inexpens...
May 14, 2017
China's Xi says Silk Road plan boosts finance, security ties
BEIJING - Pledging more than $100 billion in financing, Chinese President Xi Jinping called Sunday for closer co-operation across Asia and Europe in areas from anti-terrorism to investment as leaders ...
May 14, 2017
For Palestinians in Lebanon, 69 years of despair
SIDON, Lebanon - Ahmad Dawoud recalls the day 10 years ago when a Lebanese soldier asked to search his taxi. Then 17, the Palestinian didn’t wait for the soldier to find the weapons hidden in th...
May 14, 2017
A suicide at age 8? Very rare, but not inconceivable
NEW YORK - The death was startling even to the coroner: a boy only 8 years old apparently killing himself in his Cincinnati bedroom. Now Gabriel Taye’s January death is being re-examined, after ...
May 14, 2017
CRTC says wireless companies must be able to send emergency alerts
Canada’s telecom regulator says all wireless service providers must be able to send emergency alerts to customers’ cellphones, and has set a deadline for it to happen. The Canadian Radio-t...
May 14, 2017