Category Archives: Canadian Press
Humboldt officials share lessons from 'overwhelming' hours, days after crash
WINNIPEG - The manager of a Saskatchewan city that lost 16 people in a hockey team bus crash says community officials everywhere need to be trained in how to deal with trauma and mental-health needs f...
Oct 10, 2018
Ronald Reagan is waving to crowds again - as a hologram
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - A smiling Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car during a 1984 campaign stop in a new hologram revealed Wednesday at the late president’s namesake library in...
Oct 10, 2018
US Treasury issues new rules on foreign investments
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department issued new rules Wednesday on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national securi...
Oct 10, 2018
Attorney: Zimmerman will plead no contest in stalking case
SANFORD, Fla. - Former neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman will plead no contest to resolve a misdemeanour charge accusing him of stalking a private investigator working for a documentary f...
Oct 10, 2018
Peru opposition leader Fujimori detained in corruption probe
LIMA, Peru - Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was detained on Wednesday as part of a money-laundering investigation, the latest political leader in the Andean nation to face scrut...
Oct 10, 2018
Oil discounts grow as CEOs complain of Canada's competitiveness gap
CALGARY - Discounts on Canadian crude oil widened to multi-year highs on Wednesday as oil and gas executives took turns at a conference pointing out Canada’s competitiveness gap in attracting en...
Oct 10, 2018
Liberals eyed rules for cannabis use by workers, drug testing, documents show
OTTAWA - Federal officials have quietly probed possible new workplace rules for employees who show up to work high after cannabis is legalized next week, newly released documents show. The documents o...
Oct 10, 2018
Bernier files to create new party, won't have to disclose donors to date
OTTAWA - Quebec MP Maxime Bernier submitted the paperwork to make his new political party official Wednesday but does not have to identify the donors of more than $350,000 he raised in the last seven ...
Oct 10, 2018
Canadian hospitality company to buy Alaska ski resort
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A ski resort near Anchorage has agreed to sell its properties to a Canada-based hospitality company. Pomeroy Lodging has entered a contract to buy Alyeska Resort and Hotel Alyeska ...
Oct 10, 2018
Prosecution wraps case at gang-rape trial of U.K. sailor in Halifax
HALIFAX - A British sailor accused in a gang rape at a Halifax-area military base exposed his buttocks to another woman that night, his trial heard Wednesday as the Crown closed its case. Sarah Rutled...
Oct 10, 2018