Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nova Scotia anti-poverty groups call for immediate increase to income assistance
HALIFAX - Representatives from 13 community and anti-poverty groups are calling for an immediate increase to Nova Scotia’s basic income assistance rates, but they received no firm commitment fro...
Dec 14, 2017
Organs from deceased donors on rise, but rate for living donors down: report
TORONTO - A new report says the rate of deceased organ donations has risen substantially over the last decade in Canada, while the rate for living donors has declined. The report by the Canadian Insti...
Dec 14, 2017
Sports unions unveil universal declaration of player rights
WASHINGTON - Leaders from the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball players associations helped unveil a universal declaration of player rights that is designed to establish a new approach to govern...
Dec 14, 2017
Will US companies put overseas cash to work? Don't bet on it
WASHINGTON - The Republican tax plan seems about to hand a bow-tied holiday gift to some of America’s richest multinational companies, from Apple and Microsoft to Google’s parent Alphabet:...
Dec 14, 2017
Trump's security paper offers stark vision of global rivalry
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s “America First” vision is a stark worldview that sees rivals battling each other for supremacy or relevance and has little use for alliances, tr...
Dec 14, 2017
Lawyer: Brazil soccer official 'never joined' in any bribes
NEW YORK - Closing arguments at the U.S. corruption trial of three former South American soccer officials concluded Thursday with the lawyer for an ex-president of Brazil’s soccer federation cla...
Dec 14, 2017
Player safety: CFL schedule stretched over additional week to increase rest
TORONTO - The Canadian Football League season will be spread over an additional week next year in an effort to promote player safety. The league announced its schedule on Thursday, two months earlier ...
Dec 14, 2017
Firefighter fatality reported at huge California wildfire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A firefighter died Thursday while working a colossal wildfire burning in coastal mountains northwest of Los Angeles that has become the fourth largest in California history. Co...
Dec 14, 2017
California will set more fires to try to stop wildfires
LOS ANGELES - California’s seemingly endless cycle of wildfires is prompting authorities to make plans to set more “controlled burns” to thin forests choked with dead trees and withe...
Dec 14, 2017
Titanic Celine Dion megahit becomes part of winning tradition for Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - It was a song request Mathieu Perreault had no problem accommodating in the Winnipeg Jets’ locker-room. The Drummondville, Que., native controls the room’s music and recalled so...
Dec 14, 2017