Category Archives: Canadian Press
Democrats warn Trump hotel could turn into big headache
WASHINGTON - House Democrats warned on Wednesday that they’ll make Donald Trump’s splashy new Washington hotel a big headache if he doesn’t dump his ownership stake in it before taki...
Dec 14, 2016
Feds scrap controversial first-come, first-serve parent visa application process
OTTAWA - Coveted spots for the parent and grandparent visa program will be awarded by lottery in 2017 after the federal Liberals have scrapped the old first-come, first-serve system that had raised co...
Dec 14, 2016
Parliamentary budget watchdog puts new numbers to Liberal child benefit
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget watchdog says the government’s cornerstone child benefit will end up costing billions more after the next election if its value increases with the cost of livin...
Dec 14, 2016
Newtown marks 4th anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre
NEWTOWN, Conn. - Newtown held a moment of silence Wednesday and flags were flying at half-staff across Connecticut to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was D...
Dec 14, 2016
Tainted peanut butter leads to $11.2M penalty a decade later
ALBANY, Ga. - A decade after hundreds of Americans got sick from eating Peter Pan peanut butter contaminated with salmonella, the company that sold it made an embarrassing courtroom guilty plea and ag...
Dec 14, 2016
Zimbabwe's Mugabe, 92, looks to 2018 elections
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s ruling party says the country’s 92-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, is certain to be endorsed as the party’s presidential candidate for elections in 2...
Dec 14, 2016
For doomed ship crew, concern turned into paralyzing panic
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Crew members aboard a doomed cargo ship expressed increasingly dire concern - occasionally tinged with gallows humour - as a hurricane gained strength, culminating in one crewman ...
Dec 14, 2016
Heavyweights Junior Dos Santos, Stefan Struve to headline UFC Halifax show
TORONTO - Former heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos will face Stefan (Skyscraper) Struve in the main event of a Halifax UFC card on Feb. 19. The two big men first met at UFC 95 in February 2009 wh...
Dec 14, 2016
Debt-to-income ratio climbs to 166.9 per cent in Q3: Statistics Canada
OTTAWA - The Canadian household debt compared with income climbed to a record high in the third quarter as borrowing grew faster than incomes. Statistics Canada said Wednesday the ratio of household c...
Dec 14, 2016
Pittsburgh cites itself for ownership of run-down property
PITTSBURGH - The city of Pittsburgh has cited itself for owning run-down properties and a local judge isn’t letting the city withdraw some citations, which officials say were mistakenly filed. T...
Dec 14, 2016