Category Archives: Canadian Press
Brazil mail implements security tax for deliveries in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s state-run postal service says it will start charging extra to deliver letters and packages in Rio de Janeiro due to a wave of wave of violence in the state. Correios sa...
Feb 28, 2018
Bettman: NHL "very comfortable" with decision to miss 2018 Olympics
VANCOUVER - The NHL has no regrets about not sending its players to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, says commissioner Gary Bettman. “We’ve very comfortable with the decision we made as a le...
Feb 28, 2018
New federal cybersecurity strategy follows 'overlap, lack of clarity'
OTTAWA - In the often shadowy and dangerous domain of cyberspace, the federal government wants Canadians to have a trustworthy place to turn to help stay safe online. The newly announced plan for a fe...
Feb 28, 2018
SGI reaches settlement with bars that served drunk woman who killed 4 in crash
REGINA - Saskatchewan’s Crown-owned insurance company says it has reached a settlement with two bars that served an intoxicated woman who later killed a family of four in a traffic crash. Cather...
Feb 28, 2018
Ultranationalism globally prompts Liberals to spend on multiculturalism at home
OTTAWA - With one eye on ultranationalist movements appearing around the world, the Liberal government boosted funding in this week’s federal budget to address issues of anti-immigrant sentiment...
Feb 28, 2018
Budget 2018 plays long game when it comes to boosting number of women in sports
OTTAWA - The Liberal government wants to see gender equality in Canadian sports - from the local arena to the Olympics - by 2035, a vision articulated in a federal budget aimed at increasing opportuni...
Feb 28, 2018
Aid minister aims for more private sector investment in foreign aid
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she wants to use the new $2 billion in extra aid dollars in the new budget to attract insurance and pension funds to invest in figh...
Feb 28, 2018
McCain's daughter says Trump's reference to dad was hurtful
NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain’s daughter Meghan says it was incredibly hurtful to see President Trump talk about her father at a conservative conference last week, where the president talked about...
Feb 28, 2018
Ozzy Osbourne steps in to replace pizza man's stolen CDs in Newfoundland
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland pizza deliveryman who lost his collection of rock and roll CDs to a thief has been re-upped by the godfather of metal himself: Ozzy Osbourne. Josh Cook’s ...
Feb 28, 2018
Timeline of Bloc Quebecois events since it was founded
MONTREAL - Seven of the 10 Bloc Quebecois MPs quit the party Wednesday because of seemingly irreconciliable differences with Leader Martine Ouellet. Here is a timeline of events that have marked the p...
Feb 28, 2018