Category Archives: Canadian Press
TransCanada says it is engaging with landowners on new Keystone XL route
CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) said Tuesday it has started to engage with Nebraska landowners along the alternate route of its Keystone XL pipeline approved last week. Speaking at an investor d...
Nov 28, 2017
Judge told to act 'without delay' on Meek Mill bail request
PHILADELPHIA - An appeals court has told a Philadelphia judge to act “without further delay” on Meek Mill’s nearly 2-week-old request to be freed. The state Superior Court issued the...
Nov 28, 2017
Early signs show vulnerabilities to high debt, housing have eased: central bank
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is flagging the steady climb of household debt and still-hot housing markets as the financial system’s top vulnerabilities - but it’s also seeing some early sig...
Nov 28, 2017
Quebec gun lobby group backtracks on plan for rally at Polytechnique memorial site
MONTREAL - Amid swift and widespread outrage, a pro-gun lobby group backtracked Tuesday on a plan to hold a rally at a memorial site for the 14 women who were killed at Ecole polytechnique in 1989. A ...
Nov 28, 2017
Threat reduced to B.C. coast as fuel barge safely reaches protected waters
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The coast guard says a loaded fuel barge that broke away from its tug off British Columbia’s central coast has reached safer waters and is now moored. A tweet from the coast ...
Nov 28, 2017
President vows to unite Kenyans but deadly clashes continue
NAIROBI, Kenya - President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed at his inauguration Tuesday to unite Kenyans after months of election turmoil, but violence flared anew as police shot dead at least three people, inclu...
Nov 28, 2017
Beijing evicts Chinese migrants in droves, prompting outcry
BEIJING - Zhou Xinci left her hometown in China’s struggling rust belt four years ago for Beijing with little more than the clothes on her back and a dream to one day save enough money to buy a ...
Nov 28, 2017
After Mugabe, Africa's other longtime leaders feel a chill
KAMPALA, Uganda - After the stunning fall of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, attention has turned to other longtime African leaders accused of trying to extend their rule. Ugandan President Yoweri Mus...
Nov 28, 2017
Lawyer raises sex-fantasy theory at man's trial in death of N.S. police officer
HALIFAX - A defence lawyer appeared to suggest Tuesday that an off-duty police officer died accidentally during a consensual sexual encounter inside a Halifax apartment after encouraging Christopher G...
Nov 28, 2017
China sentences Taiwan activist to 5 years for subversion
BEIJING - China sentenced a Taiwanese activist to five years in prison Tuesday for holding online political lectures and helping the families of jailed dissidents in a conviction demonstrating how Bei...
Nov 28, 2017