Category Archives: Canadian Press
Tories promise to spend millions on the creation of medical centre for veterans
HALIFAX - Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie is promising to spend $1.75 million a year on a unique medical centre for veterans that would be led by former military members. Baillie says th...
May 12, 2017
SKorea's new leader to take on family-owned business empires
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s new president is taking on a challenge that has defied all of his predecessors: reforming the big family-controlled conglomerates that dominate the econ...
May 12, 2017
Forum on China's economic reach helps leader extend his own
BEIJING - China will seek to burnish President Xi Jinping’s stature as a world-class statesman at an international gathering centred on his signature foreign policy effort that envisions a futur...
May 12, 2017
Aid officials report spike in Jordan deportations of Syrians
AMMAN, Jordan - Life as a refugee in Jordan suddenly ended for a Syrian carpenter when he was summoned for interrogation, blindfolded and sent on a bus back to Syria with his wife and four children th...
May 12, 2017
Alaska counters lack of fresh veggies with greenhouse guide
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Cold-climate greenhouses have long been an option for increasing the limited growing season in Alaska, where fresh produce is a rarity in a harsh environment. But for many remote c...
May 12, 2017
Help promised for iconic N.B. beach: 'It's very important to maintain the brand'
SHEDIAC, N.B. - With its long ribbon of sandy shores, New Brunswick’s Parlee Beach is one of the top tourist draws in Atlantic Canada, boasting the warmest salt water in Canada. Last summer, tho...
May 12, 2017
Colbert gleefully responds 'I won' to insults from Trump
NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert has gleefully responded to insults hurled his way by President Donald Trump, cheering the fact that he finally got Trump to say his name. Trump told Time magazine that Colbe...
May 12, 2017
Fiancee: Aaron Hernandez thought he was going to be freed
BOSTON - Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez sounded as if he thought he would soon be freed in his last conversation with his fiancee before he killed himself. Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez says in an int...
May 12, 2017
EPA allows mine company to pursue permits near Alaska bay
JUNEAU, Alaska - In a sharp reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cleared a way for the company seeking to develop a massive copper and gold deposit near the headwaters of a world-cla...
May 12, 2017
Truck driver charged in deadly Highway 401 crash that killed 4
KINGSTON, Ont. - A 37-year-old transport truck driver from Quebec is facing a number of charges in connection with a major highway crash in Ontario that killed four people. Ontario Provincial Police s...
May 12, 2017