Author Archives: Wordpress Admin User
Six stories in the news today, Oct. 24
Six stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 24 LIBERALS HOPE TO SNATCH ALBERTA SEAT FROM CONSERVATIVES A federal byelection will be held today in a southern Alberta riding that hasn’t elected a Lib...
Oct 24, 2016
UBC, former student fail to reach agreement on human-rights complaint
VANCOUVER - A former University of British Columbia student who filed a human rights complaint over the school’s handling of sexual assault reports says mediation ended unsuccessfully after 90 m...
Oct 24, 2016
Trend toward low-cal drinks not enough to curb intake, says Conference Board
OTTAWA - A top economic research organization says Canada’s beverage industry will have to do more than rely on recent trends to reach its target for reducing the calories people consume through...
Oct 24, 2016
Malta says plane crashed en route to Libya surveillance trip
VALLETTA, Malta - A small plane heading toward Libya’s coast to monitor migrant trafficking routes for the French government crashed soon after takeoff from Malta’s airport Monday, killing...
Oct 24, 2016
Federal Conservatives win reliable stronghold in Alberta byelection
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A large turnout for Justin Trudeau during an Alberta byelection campaign wasn’t enough of a push for the Liberals in the federal constituency of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warne...
Oct 24, 2016
Dispute over Visa fees heats up as Walmart stops accepting credit card in Manitoba
TORONTO - The dispute between Walmart Canada and Visa over merchant fees escalated Monday as the retail giant stopped accepting the credit card at its 16 stores in Manitoba. Walmart first refused Visa...
Oct 24, 2016
Tom Hayden, '60s activist and liberal statesman, dead at 76
LOS ANGELES - In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical to a mainstream elected official an...
Oct 24, 2016
Gasps, tears, smiles as N.B. Appeal Court quashes Oland murder conviction
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s Court of Appeal has overturned Dennis Oland’s conviction for the second-degree murder of his millionaire father, and ordered a new trial. Oland showed no imme...
Oct 24, 2016
Kickers miss short field goals, Seahawks, Cards tie 6-6
GLENDALE, Ariz. - Stephen Hauschka needed only to make a 27-yard field goal to give the Seattle Seahawks an overtime victory over Arizona. Chandler Catanzaro’s only had to hit a 24-yarder to giv...
Oct 23, 2016
Scores and Schedule
Sunday’s Games NFL N.Y. Giants 17 Los Angeles 10 Cincinnati 31 Cleveland 17 N.Y. Jets 24 Baltimore 16 Detroit 20 Washington 17 Kansas City 27 New Orleans 21 Philadelphia 21 Minnesota 10 Miami 28...
Oct 23, 2016