Category Archives: Canadian Press
Senate committee calls for Liberals to kill interim Super Hornet purchase
OTTAWA - The Senate defence committee released a report Monday blasting the Trudeau government’s “political decision” to purchase Super Hornet fighter jets, while all but endorsing t...
May 8, 2017
Deciding next step in Afghanistan comes with grim backdrop
WASHINGTON - As the Trump administration weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, the 16-year war grinds on in bloody stalemate. Afghan soldiers are suffering what Pentagon auditors call “shoc...
May 8, 2017
Watchdog says Vietnamese officials bribed by log smugglers
BANGKOK - An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighbouring Cambodia. Millions of doll...
May 8, 2017
Pakistan, Afghanistan start joint survey after border clash
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistan and Afghanistan started a joint survey agreed on following last week’s deadly clashes along the two countries’ disputed boundary in Pakistan’s southwest, ...
May 8, 2017
Body of man missing in Quebec floods found; child still missing
MONTREAL - More than 1,500 soldiers hit the ground Monday to help Quebecers deal with “historic” flooding that has caused widespread damage and evacuations and sparked a desperate search f...
May 8, 2017
Afghan air force pounds area after death of IS commander
KABUL - Afghanistan’s air force has pounded Islamic State targets in an eastern province where an Afghan and U.S. military raid last month killed the militant group’s top commander, the go...
May 8, 2017
A timeline of key events in the British Columbia election campaign
VANCOUVER - A timeline of some of the key events in British Columbia’s election campaign: April 10: On the eve of the election, the Liberals release an campaign platform containing $157 million ...
May 8, 2017
Act II for France's Macron: getting the majority to govern
PARIS - Freshly elected to the French presidency, Emmanuel Macron now faces an equally difficult Act II: securing the parliamentary majority he needs to make good on his campaign promises to lift Fran...
May 8, 2017
Hvorostovsky makes surprise appearance at Met Opera gala
NEW YORK - Dmitri Hvorostovsky walked stiffly toward the centre of the stage after the surprise announcement by Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb. The 54-year-old Russian withdrew in Decem...
May 8, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Sunday’s Games NHL Playoffs Second Round Edmonton 7 Anaheim 1 (Series tied 3-3) Nashville 3 St. Louis 1 (Predators win series 4-2) — IIHF World Hockey Championship Canada 7 Slovenia 2 Russ...
May 8, 2017