Category Archives: Canadian Press
Orr shares life in and out of hockey in new book "Bobby: My Story in Pictures"
TORONTO - Bobby Orr provided hockey one of its most iconic pictures with his flying, horizontal celebration after scoring the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup final. The Bruins defenceman beat St....
Oct 31, 2018
US companies hiring at robust pace, wages rise faster
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added jobs in October at the healthiest pace in eight months, and wages rose by the most in a decade, the latest evidence of the durable strength of the U.S. job market. Bu...
Oct 31, 2018
Statistics Canada reports GDP up 0.1% in August boosted by oil and gas subsector
OTTAWA - The energy and financial sectors helped boost Canadian economic growth in August despite weakness in manufacturing due to auto assembly plant shutdowns. Statistics Canada said Wednesday real ...
Oct 31, 2018
Police search for clues in slayings of 2 aspiring rappers
MIRAMAR, Fla. - Investigators in Florida are trying to determine who killed two aspiring rappers whose bodies were riddled with gunshot wounds when a friend drove them to a hospital’s emergency ...
Oct 31, 2018
Mr. Feeny on 'Boy Meets World' thwarts burglary at his home
LOS ANGELES - The 91-year-old award-winning actor who played Mr. Feeny on “Boy Meets World” scared off a burglar from his home. William Daniels and his 89-year-old wife, Bonnie Bartlett, w...
Oct 31, 2018
South Sudan opposition leader returns as part of peace deal
JUBA, South Sudan - For the first time since fleeing South Sudan more than two years ago, opposition leader Riek Machar returned on Wednesday to take part in a nationwide peace celebration. “I c...
Oct 31, 2018
Woman plans to die on Thursday, saying Ottawa is forcing early death on her
HALIFAX - Audrey Parker has decided to end her life on Thursday. She has approached it as a political act - an important public statement about Canada’s relatively new assisted dying law. The 57...
Oct 31, 2018
Searchers find body of missing boy in river exactly where dogs said he would be
OTTAWA - The search for an 11-year-old boy who fell into the St. Lawrence River near Rockport, Ont. this fall took an agonizing 48 days and involved dozens of people from amateur dive teams and recrea...
Oct 31, 2018
In the news today, Oct. 31
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 31 --- KENNEY TURFS PARTY MEMBER AMID REPORT OF EXTREME VIEWS Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney has turfed a party member who once ran the cal...
Oct 31, 2018
Pakistan court acquits Christian on death row for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD - A Christian woman who spent eight years on death row under Pakistan’s blasphemy law was acquitted and ordered released Wednesday by the country’s top court, a ruling that raise...
Oct 31, 2018