Category Archives: Canadian Press
Chemistry Nobel for using evolution to create new proteins
STOCKHOLM - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for using a sped-up version of evolution to create new proteins that have led to a bestselling drug and other products. The Roya...
Oct 03, 2018
N.B. bilingualism debate flares as parties' battle for power unfolds
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A resolution from an Acadian seaside town council has fired a warning shot across the bow of the New Brunswick Tories, as the municipal councillors try to rally wider francophone su...
Oct 03, 2018
CFL already feeling pinch from upstart Alliance of American Football
The Alliance of American Football (AAF) doesn’t begin play until February, but Marcel Desjardins already has been impacted by the new league. “We had a guy here in training camp who was in...
Oct 03, 2018
NewsAlert:U.S., British researchers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM - Two researchers from the United States and one in Britain have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The nine-million-kronor (US$1.01 million) chemistry prize is the last of this year...
Oct 03, 2018
The Latest: Lab orders $3,636 of Champagne for Nobel winner
STOCKHOLM - The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 5:55 p.m. Cambridge University scientist Greg Winter says he was staring at his computer wondering how he would ever finis...
Oct 03, 2018
UN court orders US to lift some Iran sanctions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services li...
Oct 03, 2018
B.C.'s Kitimat LNG deal has Horgan juggling Greens, Liberals, environmentalists
VICTORIA - The prospect of billions of dollars in liquefied natural gas revenues has British Columbia’s government preparing for a political and environmental juggling act as Premier John Horgan...
Oct 03, 2018
In the news today, Oct. 3
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 3 ___ EXPECT NASTY FEDERAL CAMPAIGN, TRUDEAU SAYS Next year’s federal election campaign will likely be the nastiest one yet, Prime Minister Justin Tr...
Oct 03, 2018
Canada can claim at least partial success of progressive agenda in USMCA
OTTAWA - Was Canada’s pursuit of a “progressive” trade agenda a help or a hindrance during the marathon negotiations with the U.S. and Mexico on a new continental free trade pact? Ac...
Oct 03, 2018
Volcano erupts on same Indonesian island as earlier quake
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same central Indonesian island struck last week by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, but no evacuations were ordered. Mount Soputan on the nort...
Oct 03, 2018