Category Archives: Canadian Press
Alberta Health Services apologizes for invoice addressed to 'Treaty Indian'
EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services says a mistake on a form a decade ago using outdated language is to blame after a teenage Indigenous girl was sent an invoice addressed to “Treaty Indian.̶...
Apr 05, 2018
AP: Women file to run for US House seats in record numbers
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The number of women running for the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, most of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the R...
Apr 05, 2018
CSA finds corporate climate change risk reports failing to satisfy investors
CALGARY - A year-long review of climate change risk reporting by large Canadian publicly traded companies has found huge disparities in practices between corporations and industries but recommends no ...
Apr 05, 2018
Sens' Gaborik recovering after undergoing back surgery to repair herniated disc
Ottawa Senators forward Marian Gaborik is recovering after undergoing back surgery Thursday to repair a herniated disc. The 36-year-old Slovak, who has 21 points in 46 games this season, hasn’t ...
Apr 05, 2018
Random police checks should be banned: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
HALIFAX - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is renewing his call for a ban on all random police street checks, saying the practice - sometimes known as carding - is a form of systemic racism. “Pe...
Apr 05, 2018
Trudeau says G7 summit chance to show citizens they can have confidence in future
QUEBEC - The annual G7 meeting remains useful and important because it helps citizens around the world continue to have confidence in the future, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. There is ...
Apr 05, 2018
Talk of spring election growing in Prince Edward Island: political scientist
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Prince Edward Island government will table its 2018 budget Friday, amid what one observer says are growing signs of an early provincial election call. Don Desserud, a professor of ...
Apr 05, 2018
Missionaries at border spread Christianity to North Korea
SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China - To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese border region, she is known as “mom.” She feeds them, gives t...
Apr 05, 2018
Trump is a 'subject' of investigation. What does that mean?
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team currently considers President Donald Trump to be a subject - not a criminal target- in the wide-ranging investigation into Russian election int...
Apr 05, 2018
Fear grips Yemen's Aden as deadly attacks target clerics
SANAA, Yemen - A spate of deadly drive-by shootings targeting Muslim clerics and preachers has sparked panic and fear in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, prompting some imams to quit and aban...
Apr 05, 2018