Category Archives: Canadian Press
Liberals look to promote changes to benefit for working poor
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are on a promotional blitz to tout a key promise in their latest federal budget aimed at one day providing extra benefits to the working poor. The Liberals are keen to pr...
Mar 7, 2018
It's spring break and beer is flowing - on a Florida highway
CRESTVIEW, Fla. - Spring break is underway and the beer is already flowing - onto a Florida interstate highway. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s officials said on Facebook Wednesday that a tractor-trai...
Mar 7, 2018
Teenage girl dead after Alberta collision between semi truck and school bus
REDWATER, Alta. - An Alberta school superintendent says the death of a teenage girl in a collision between a school bus and a semi truck north of Edmonton has devastated the small community. Police an...
Mar 7, 2018
Event was cancelled: Woman charged after threat to nudist swim at Calgary pool
CALGARY - A woman has been charged in relation to a threat made over a nudist swim at a Calgary public swimming pool that was cancelled due to security concerns. The Calgary Nude Recreation Club had s...
Mar 7, 2018
S. Korea leader sees more obstacles ahead to disarm N. Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s president said Thursday that many “critical moments” still lie ahead to end the nuclear crisis despite North Korea’s recent outreach t...
Mar 7, 2018
Fears of 'brain drain' hit West Wing amid Trump staff exits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump once presided over a reality show in which a key cast member exited each week. The same thing seems to be happening in his White House. Trump’s West Wing has ...
Mar 7, 2018
For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most
ERIE, Pa. - With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it’s easy to pin the blame for this industrial city’s plight on the loss of manufacturing...
Mar 7, 2018
Saudi women take the wheel, test-driving a new freedom
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Fatima Salem giggles with hesitation when it’s her turn to drive through a small parking lot lined with bright orange cones and arrows. Like millions of Saudi women, she p...
Mar 7, 2018
Putin praises Trump, says US political system eating itself
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Donald Trump, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating its...
Mar 7, 2018
Bleak Women's Day in South Sudan, where #MeToo has no impact
JUBA, South Sudan - Wiping tears from her cheeks, the young woman describes how she has resorted to prostitution to feed her children. When South Sudan’s civil war broke out in 2013, her family ...
Mar 7, 2018