Category Archives: Canadian Press
U19 FIBA basketball champions pick up Canadian Press team of year honours
TORONTO - It was the perfect mix of talent and togetherness. And over one remarkable week last summer in Cairo, 12 teenagers did something no Canadian team had ever accomplished - claim gold on basket...
Dec 28, 2017
Inquiry announced into Lionel Desmond tragedy: 'This is just the beginning'
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it will call an inquiry into the deaths of a former soldier and his family, nearly 12 months after the horrific bloodshed stunned a rural community and sent s...
Dec 28, 2017
Trump, in Washington, doesn't get out much
WASHINGTON - After living in Washington for nearly a year, President Donald Trump has yet to enjoy a single non-working meal at a restaurant that doesn’t pay him rent. He hasn’t taken in a...
Dec 28, 2017
Few ready to pay to rebuild Iraq after Islamic State defeat
MOSUL, Iraq - For nearly 2 1/2 miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City is a crumpled landscape of b...
Dec 28, 2017
First white rhinoceros born at Toronto Zoo in 27 years has "very hairy ears"
TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says a seven-year-old white rhinoceros gave birth to a male calf on Christmas Eve. The zoo says both mom, Zohari, and baby are doing well, with the calf weighing 62.3 kilogra...
Dec 28, 2017
Royal Canadian Navy to begin training at sea on leased supply vessel
HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy’s new supply vessel is preparing to train its combined civilian and military crew at sea - in what the ship’s owners argue will be a less costly way to op...
Dec 28, 2017
Islamic State kills 41 in attack on Afghan cultural centre
KABUL - An Islamic State suicide bomber struck a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and underscoring the extremist group’s growing reach in Afghanistan even ...
Dec 28, 2017
New report says some progress on reducing cat overpopulation, but not enough
OTTAWA - A new study on cat overpopulation in Canada says more of the pets are being sterilized to reduce unwanted litters, but there are still more cats than people willing to give them homes. The re...
Dec 28, 2017
Nova Scotia Power completing final power restorations amid frigid temperatures
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Power says it is working on the final restorations of electricity almost three days after a severe storm snapped hydro poles and caused widespread outages in the province. The ut...
Dec 28, 2017
In the news today, Dec. 28
Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 28 --- NO BREAK YET FROM DEEP FREEZE Vast sections of the country remain in the grip of a bitter cold wave this morning. Extreme cold warnings continue in ...
Dec 28, 2017