Category Archives: Canadian Press
Investigators probe third accident at Halifax airport in 15 years
HALIFAX - Federal investigators have arrived in Halifax to piece together why a Boeing 747 cargo plane skidded off an airport runway Wednesday, leaving a trail of debris and sending four crew to hospi...
Nov 07, 2018
Halifax CFL team proponents launch ticket drive, reveal potential names
HALIFAX - The group aiming to bring a Canadian Football League team to Halifax added a little more colour to its proposal Wednesday, announcing a name-the-team contest and an initial short list of nam...
Nov 07, 2018
Trudeau promises help to secure places of worship in wake of synagogue shooting
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed Wednesday that his government would do more to protect synagogues and other places of worship from violence as part of an apology for anti-Semitic policies...
Nov 07, 2018
First World War letters put a human face on the war that shaped us as a nation
VANCOUVER - Jacqueline Carmichael pored over her grandfathers’ letters for several weeks. She read the long, handwritten notes, and the short ones scribbled perhaps in a hurry as the men hunkere...
Nov 07, 2018
Parole denied for drunk driver Marco Muzzo, who killed three kids and their grandfather in crash
GRAVENHURST, Ont. - A drunk driver who killed three young children and their grandfather in a crash north of Toronto continues to minimize his problems with alcohol and must address the issue before h...
Nov 07, 2018
In the news today, Nov. 7
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Nov. 7 --- FEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR HOLOCAUST INCIDENT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will issue an official government apology today for what he will call the count...
Nov 07, 2018
Canada Post strikes hit Toronto and 11 other cities in southern Ontario: CUPW
OTTAWA - The Canada Post rotating strikes have hit the country’s largest processing centre in Toronto for a second time in three weeks as workers in 11 other southern Ontario communities walked ...
Nov 07, 2018
Grenade-shaped belt buckle halts trains in Madrid, Barcelona
MADRID - A hand grenade-shaped belt buckle in the suitcase of a train passenger triggered major disruptions Wednesday on rail services in Spain’s two main cities, prompting station evacuations b...
Nov 07, 2018
Trial for acclaimed theatre director opens in Russia
MOSCOW - Russia’s arguably best-known contemporary theatre and film director pleaded not guilty Wednesday as his fraud trial opened in Moscow. Kirill Serebrennikov’s midnight arrest during...
Nov 07, 2018
Scores and Schedule
Tuesday’s Games NHL Columbus 4 Dallas 1 Toronto 3 Vegas 1 N.Y. Rangers 5 Montreal 3 Ottawa 7 New Jersey 3 Detroit 3 Vancouver 2 (SO) Tampa Bay 5 Edmonton 2 St. Louis 4 Carolina 1 San Jose 4 Minn...
Nov 06, 2018