Category Archives: Canadian Press
Sears survives a near-death experience, but for how long?
NEW YORK - Sears will live on - at least for now. Its chairman and biggest shareholder, Eddie Lampert, won tentative approval for a $5 billion plan to keep the ailing, 132-year-old department-store ch...
Jan 16, 2019
Toronto FC looks to return to stingy ways on defence with addition of Ciman
TORONTO - After seeing his team concede a franchise-worst 64 goals last season, Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney is looking forward to integrating veteran defender Laurent Ciman into his backline. A ...
Jan 16, 2019
EU leaders plead with UK to get its act together on Brexit
STRASBOURG, France - European Union leaders were pleading Wednesday with the U.K. to finally get its act together on Brexit, end internal strife and come up with a realistic plan to leave the bloc - w...
Jan 16, 2019
Spain: DNA sample confirms 2-year-old fell into borehole
MADRID - Spanish rescuers working against the clock to find a 2-year-old boy who’s been missing for three days say they have found DNA samples of the boy confirming his parents’ account th...
Jan 16, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 16
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 16 --- OTTAWA POLICE TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON BUS CRASH Ottawa police will provide an update today on the ongoing investigation into last week’s double-d...
Jan 16, 2019
Burgess Shale fossils add branches to tree of life, says Royal Society report
VICTORIA - The tiny remains of an extinct bug-like creature discovered at British Columbia’s 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposit add a new branch to the evolutionary tree of life, ...
Jan 16, 2019
Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur has case put over to end of January
TORONTO - An alleged serial killer who faces murder charges in the deaths of eight men with ties to Toronto’s gay village has had his case put over to the end of January. Bruce McArthur made a b...
Jan 16, 2019
Lametti appointment raises hope for less restrictive assisted dying law
OTTAWA - The appointment of David Lametti as Canada’s new justice minister has given new hope to those who believe the Trudeau government’s law on medically assisted dying is too restricti...
Jan 16, 2019
Police chief confirms all three Ottawa bus victims were on board when it crashed
OTTAWA - All three people killed in last week’s deadly bus accident were passengers on the bus when it crashed, Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau confirmed Wednesday. Bordeleau provided an u...
Jan 16, 2019
National dementia strategy should include input from patients, caregivers: report
TORONTO - An expert panel has released a report outlining the best ways to tackle the growing incidence of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia among Canadians as a basis for the federal gove...
Jan 16, 2019