Category Archives: Canadian Press
A universe of flawed heroes: Stan Lee was ahead of his time
It became easy, in recent years, to dismiss him as the wisecracking grandpa of the American comic book, a past-his-prime gimmick who cameoed alongside Earth’s angstiest superheroes in the high-g...
Nov 13, 2018
National Grid to use 'noise cannon' to scare away crows
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - After all else failed, National Grid is bringing in a cannon to scare away the hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. Don’...
Nov 13, 2018
A fine, no jail time for Canadian charged with vandalizing historic Thai wall
A Canadian woman who was arrested in northern Thailand for spraying paint on an ancient wall has avoided more jail time, but must still pay a $4,000 fine for her actions. Brittney Schneider, who is fr...
Nov 13, 2018
Feds pledge money for young scientists, but funding for in-house research slips
OTTAWA - Science Minister Kirsty Duncan says she expects universities to nominate young scientists for the vast majority of Canada’s new federally-funded research jobs. Duncan is on a cross-coun...
Nov 13, 2018
All school kidnapping captives freed, says Cameroon leader
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - All students and staff abducted more than a week ago from a school in Cameroon’s restive North West region have been freed, a leader of the Presbyterian church said Tuesday. ...
Nov 13, 2018
Sheriff: California wildfire's death toll rises to 48
PARADISE, Calif. - Ernest Foss was a musician who gave lessons out of his home when he lived in San Francisco, where an amplifier that ran the length of a wall served as the family’s living room...
Nov 13, 2018
After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war
KABUL - When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban have retaken half the country, security is wor...
Nov 13, 2018
Grim calculus: Coroners search for those killed in wildfire
PARADISE, Calif. - The blue of an unfurled body bag has become a gut-wrenching splash of colour in this apocalyptic landscape as pressure mounts to account for the hundreds of missing people after a w...
Nov 13, 2018
Cease-fire takes hold between Israel and Hamas
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Hamas and other militant groups said Tuesday they had accepted an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire to end two days of intense fighting with Israel that had pushed the sworn e...
Nov 13, 2018
At Southeast Asian summit, pushback against going it alone
SINGAPORE - The annual gathering of Southeast Asian leaders began Tuesday with a warning from the host, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, about threats against international rules that underpi...
Nov 13, 2018