Category Archives: Canadian Press
Grey Cup-champion Argonauts re-sign Canadian fullback Declan Cross
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts signed Canadian fullback Declan Cross to a contract extension through the 2020 season Thursday. "Declan was a big part of our team's success in 2017," Toronto GM Jim Po...
Dec 21, 2017
Murder charges laid in the deaths of mother and two daughters in Kelowna, B.C.
KELOWNA, B.C. - A mother and her two daughters are dead and murder charges have been laid after the RCMP discovered three bodies at a home in Kelowna, B.C. Court documents show Jacob Daniel Forman, wh...
Dec 21, 2017
The flawed, absent minded, over-confident thinking economists see in all of us
CALGARY - Humans are pretty complicated creatures - but that hasn’t always been reflected in the influential field of economics. Economic models based on assumptions we are fully emotionless hav...
Dec 21, 2017
Nova Scotia woman's recent death the result of shooting in 1976: RCMP
HALIFAX - Deanna Conant was in her mid 30s when a gunshot wound left her disabled, forever changing her life. Four decades later, the careful work of a team of Nova Scotia pathologists showed the inju...
Dec 21, 2017
Canada's Mikael Kingsbury captures gold at moguls World Cup in China
ZHANGJIAKOU, China - Canadian freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury captured his ninth straight World Cup moguls title Thursday. The skier from Deux-Montagnes, Que., one of Canada’s top medal t...
Dec 21, 2017
UN denounces US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to denounce President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, largely ignoring Trump’s threats to cut off...
Dec 21, 2017
AP Poll: Sexual misconduct allegations voted top news story
NEW YORK - The wave of sexual misconduct allegations that toppled Hollywood power brokers, politicians, media icons and many others was the top news story of 2017, according to The Associated Press...
Dec 21, 2017
Congress clears temporary spending bill to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill Thursday to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes ...
Dec 21, 2017
South Korea fires warning shots after North soldier defects
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean soldiers fired 20 warning machine-gun rounds Thursday, turning back North Korean soldiers apparently pursuing a comrade who had earlier dashed across the rival...
Dec 21, 2017
Here's a list November inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.1 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): -...
Dec 21, 2017