Category Archives: Canadian Press
N. Korea dominates pre-Olympic media coverage at Pyeongchang
GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - A giant national flag. A smiling angel. The dictator’s pop diva. And a dozen women added to a South Korean hockey team to form the Koreas’ first-ever joint ...
Feb 6, 2018
Man pens own obit, says only regret was not seeing end of Coronation Street
COLE HARBOUR, N.S. - Shannon Leonard Churchill left the world with a single regret: not knowing how Coronation Street will end. The 44-year-old East Coast man makes the quirky claim in an obituary he ...
Feb 6, 2018
Seattle Seahawks' Frank Clark loses father in house fire
CLEVELAND - Seattle Seahawks player Frank Clark has confirmed his father and three other family members have died in a Cleveland house fire. Clark wrote in a tweet posted Sunday evening that his fathe...
Feb 6, 2018
Killer weeps as father describes her descent into mental illness
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A former top Newfoundland athlete wept as her father and former boyfriend described her descent from a happy, healthy young woman to a murder suspect now on trial for killing ...
Feb 6, 2018
Investors must make sense of a sudden drop in stock market
Stumble, fall or crash? Investors may be wondering what to make of the dramatic sell-off in the stock market after months of tranquility. A slide that started early last week led to a sharp dive in ma...
Feb 6, 2018
By boat, N. Korean musicians arrive in South for Olympic gig
DONGHAE, Korea, Republic Of - A shipload of North Korean musicians, singers and dancers has arrived in South Korea to perform at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The arrival of the Mangyongbong 92 cru...
Feb 6, 2018
Markets Right Now: Futures markets predict more US selling
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 6:55 a.m. It’s going to be a nervous opening on Wall Street, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average recorded i...
Feb 6, 2018
21 arrested as UK targets people smuggling gang in raids
LONDON - British police made 21 arrests Tuesday during a series of raids against a suspected people smuggling network that is accused of bringing hundreds of migrants across the English Channel. Offic...
Feb 6, 2018
Schools, NHL, Olympic committee prepare for new gender-neutral O Canada lyrics
OTTAWA - School districts, a police department and the National Hockey League are just some of the groups preparing for the new gender-neutral lyrics of O Canada, which could get Rideau Hall’s s...
Feb 6, 2018
In the news today, Feb. 6
Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 6 --- CAROLINE MULRONEY LAYS OUT SOME PRIORITIES Cutting income taxes and hydro rates are a couple of ideas Caroline Mulroney proposed last night while disc...
Feb 6, 2018