Category Archives: Canadian Press
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Dec. 29 --- CANADA 150 NEW YEAR’S SHOW CHANGED DUE TO COLD: Mother Nature drowned out Canada Day on Parliament Hill and now it’s frozen out part o...
Dec 29, 2017
A look at some of the new recipients of the Order of Canada
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Julie Payette announced 125 new appointments to the Order of Canada Friday. The honour was created in 1967 to recognize outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and serv...
Dec 29, 2017
New census numbers show Montreal to be Canada's most trilingual city
MONTREAL - While some politicians and Quebec nationalists fretted in 2017 over the perception Montreal has become too bilingual, new data from the 2016 census reveal the city is truly Canada’s t...
Dec 29, 2017
Apotex founder Barry Sherman among latest Order of Canada inductees
OTTAWA - The Canadian pharmaceutical giant whose sudden death earlier this month is shrouded in mystery is among the latest inductees into the Order of Canada. Gov. Gen. Julie Payette announced 125 ne...
Dec 29, 2017
Friday's Games
Friday’s Games World Junior Hockey Championship At Buffalo N.Y. Russia 5 Belarus 2 United States 4 Canada 3 (SO) — Spengler Cup At Davos Switzerland Mountfield HK 4 Dinamo Riga 1 HC Davos ...
Dec 29, 2017
Nova Scotia brain injury victim communicates with mom for first time since 1996
HALIFAX - In what her mother calls a “Christmas miracle,” a Nova Scotia woman who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a 1996 car accident communicated one-on-one with her mother for th...
Dec 29, 2017
Ex-federal cabinet minister Julian Fantino takes aim at judge, cops, lawyers
TORONTO - Former Conservative cabinet minister and provincial police commissioner Julian Fantino has accused a Canadian judge, lawyers and several police forces of acting improperly and even illegally...
Dec 29, 2017
Sue Grafton, writer of popular 'alphabet' mysteries, dies
LOS ANGELES - Sue Grafton, author of the bestselling “alphabet series” of mystery novels, has died in Santa Barbara. She was 77. Grafton was surrounded by family, including husband Steven ...
Dec 29, 2017
B.C. court rules American Indigenous man has right to hunt in Canada
NELSON, B.C. - An American Indigenous man’s right to hunt in Canada has been upheld by a B.C. Supreme Court judge because his ancestors traditionally hunted in this country. Richard Desautel was...
Dec 29, 2017
Shares of several Canadian cannabis companies temporarily halted on TSX
TORONTO - Several Canadian cannabis companies had their stocks temporarily halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange early Friday afternoon due to volatile swings in trading. The Investment Industry Regula...
Dec 29, 2017