Category Archives: Canadian Press
Team gives medication to sick killer whale at sea
SEATTLE - A team of whale experts has injected an ailing killer whale with antibiotics in a rare emergency effort to save her. NOAA Fisheries says the international team reached 3 1/2-year-old orca kn...
Aug 10, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for July, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...
Aug 10, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for July, by province
OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrado...
Aug 10, 2018
Surge in part-time work offsets full-time losses, helps drops unemployment rate
OTTAWA - The economy generated 54,100 net new jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate fall - but the headline improvements overshadowed weaker details: a rush of new part-time, public sector pos...
Aug 10, 2018
Two officers among four killed in N.B. shooting: 'This is the worst moment'
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s usually quiet capital city erupted in violence Friday, as two police officers responding to a shooting arrived to find two victims - and were then fatally shot them...
Aug 10, 2018
NewsAlert: At least four dead after shooting in New Brunswick's captial city
Fredericton police says at least four people have died in a shooting. Few details are available, but police were asking residents in the Brookside Drive area to stay in their homes with the doors lock...
Aug 10, 2018
Still there for you: 'Friends' most-viewed UK streaming show
LONDON - Almost 15 years after it was cancelled, “Friends” is still there for British viewers. The catchphrase-generating New York sitcom is the most popular show on U.K. streaming service...
Aug 10, 2018
Lisa Marie Presley to take part in Elvis Week celebration
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An exhibit centred on the career of Lisa Marie Presley, and a launch party marking the release of an album of gospel songs by her late father Elvis Presley, are among the highlights o...
Aug 10, 2018
Children born to spies in Canada should not be handed citizenship: Ottawa
OTTAWA - Russian spies lurking in the Canadian shadows may toil in secret, but they’re still employees of Moscow - and therefore their children are not Canadian citizens, the federal government ...
Aug 10, 2018
Turkey shaken by financial fears, Trump rattles it further
ANKARA, Turkey - A financial shockwave ripped through Turkey on Friday, when its currency nosedived on concerns about its economic policies and a dispute with the U.S., which President Donald Trump st...
Aug 10, 2018