Category Archives: Canadian Press
Universities, colleges offering more training for marijuana industry
VANCOUVER - From growing the perfect crop to marketing within restrictive rules, Canadian colleges and universities are cultivating courses for those wanting to work in the booming marijuana industry....
Feb 4, 2018
GPS-based system could have prevented deadly train crash
CAYCE, S.C. - Federal investigators spent a second day Monday at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur ...
Feb 4, 2018
Democratic, GOP lawmakers: Memo doesn't clear Trump in probe
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said...
Feb 4, 2018
EU official warn US on trade: EU will hit back if needed
BERLIN - A senior European Union official is warning that the 28-nation bloc will hit back if U.S. President Donald Trump takes trade measures against it. EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger tol...
Feb 4, 2018
German coalition talks adjourned until Monday
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats embarked Sunday on a final push for an agreement on a new German government, but negotiators adjourned for ...
Feb 4, 2018
Israel to legalize settlement outpost deep in West Bank
JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday said it plans to legalize an isolated West Bank outpost in response to the murder of one of its residents in a shooting attack last month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...
Feb 4, 2018
Iran says Trump's hostility to nuclear deal scares investors
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says President Donald Trump’s hostility to the 2015 nuclear deal is dampening foreign investment in the energy sector despite the lifting of sanctions. Oil Minister Bijan Zan...
Feb 4, 2018
Child abductions rise amid South Sudan's grinding civil war
AKOBO, South Sudan - Child abductions have risen during South Sudan’s civil war as desperate people try to make a living. One child, no matter the age, is said to sell for 20 cows, worth about $...
Feb 4, 2018
Pakistani Taliban claim attack that killed 11 soldiers
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack the day before that killed 11 soldiers and wounded 13 in the Swat Valley. Authorities say Saturday’s attac...
Feb 4, 2018
J. Lo shout-outs A-Rod, covers Prince at pre-Super Bowl show
MINNEAPOLIS - Jennifer Lopez raised money for Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico, celebrated an anniversary with beau Alex Rodriguez and covered Prince songs at a pre-Super Bowl concert in Minneap...
Feb 4, 2018