Category Archives: Canada
BlackBerry to leave smartphone hardware business by end of February
WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry is heeding calls to leave the smartphone hardware business that once helped forge its reputation as a global technology leader before it got swept aside by the likes of App...
Sep 28, 2016
B.C. mill shooter guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder
NANAIMO, B.C. - The wife and daughter of a man killed in a shooting at a Vancouver Island mill held each other and cried Wednesday as a jury found the man’s attacker guilty on four charges. Kevi...
Sep 28, 2016
Quebec newspapers seek government help to face transition to digital
MONTREAL - Several Quebec newspaper publishers have formed a coalition to demand short-term financial support from the provincial and federal governments to help them shift to digital. The coalition r...
Sep 28, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Sept. 28
Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- TRUDEAU TO ATTEND SHIMON PERES FUNERAL Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join a list of world leaders in Israel on Friday for the funeral o...
Sep 28, 2016
Changing climate is raising forest fire risk, says NRCan annual report
OTTAWA - A new government report says that by the end of this century, a changing climate is expected to at least double the area burned each year by forest fires in Canada. The annual forest assessme...
Sep 28, 2016
Tory MP says $1,300 per person for food, drink on PM's plane is 'outrageous'
OTTAWA - Passengers who accompanied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his first two international trips were apparently well fed. The government has revealed, in response to a written question by the C...
Sep 28, 2016
A look at where the royals are going Thursday
VICTORIA - Here are details for Thursday of the royal tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: - Prince William and Kate meet with local military families at a children’s party hosted in Victo...
Sep 28, 2016
Whitehorse greets Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with tweets and language lesson
WHITEHORSE - The tapping and beeping noises out of the old telegraph went on for what felt like ages, but when it was done 90-year-old Doug Bell asked the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to press the bu...
Sep 28, 2016
Reaction to the death of ex-Israeli President Shimon Peres
Quotes from around the world after the death of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and elder statesman of Israeli politics, at age 93. ___ “Shimon Peres was, abo...
Sep 27, 2016
Calgary research says stroke treatment window longer than thought
CALGARY - New research out of the University of Calgary is showing that there may be more time than first thought to prevent permanent damage during a stroke. The new research was recently published i...
Sep 27, 2016