Category Archives: Canadian Press
Electric vehicle charging coming to 25 Ontario Canadian Tire Gas+ locations
TORONTO - Electric vehicle charging stations are being added to 25 Canadian Tire Gas+ locations in Ontario, a first for the company. AddEnergie Technologies says the stations, which start rolling out ...
Dec 05, 2016
Torts different from public perception, GM says; Russians make leap
John Tortorella is not who you think he is, at least according to his boss with the Blue Jackets. Columbus general manager Jarmo Kekalainen says the public perception of his 58-year-old coach as a rel...
Dec 05, 2016
The Latest: Tribal leader: Pipeline opponents should go home
CANNON BALL, N.D. - The Latest on the protest against the construction of the final section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. (all times local): 1 p.m. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Da...
Dec 05, 2016
Weather warnings issued as snow hits B.C.'s south coast and Vancouver Island
The first significant snowfall to hit the Vancouver region in more than two years is causing widespread transit delays and has prompted several school closures, including the shutdown of a university ...
Dec 05, 2016
StatCan study highlights drop in wage, job quality for young workers
OTTAWA - A new study from Statistics Canada about the precarious position young workers find themselves in - and how little it has changed in four decades - has refocused attention on the federal gove...
Dec 05, 2016
Campaign aims to educate Canada's youth sooner about changing technology
OTTAWA - With potentially thousands of high-paying jobs going unfilled in Canada, Prime Minister Just Trudeau lent his voice Monday to a campaign aimed at encouraging young people to study computer sc...
Dec 05, 2016
Police nab suspects, fowl accomplice in break-in
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Two suspects in a weekend break-in at a Massachusetts convenience store had a fowl accomplice. Northampton officers investigating a robbery in progress at a store at about 3:45 a....
Dec 05, 2016
Blue Jays sign versatile veteran Steve Pearce to US$12.50-million, two-year deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed versatile veteran Steve Pearce to a two-year contract worth US$12.5 million. The 33-year-old spent last season with Tampa Bay and Baltimore, hitting .288 wi...
Dec 05, 2016
Bolivia: Crashed jet's company left trail of unpaid debts
LA PAZ, Bolivia - The airline involved in last week’s crash in the Andes left a trail of unpaid bills that forced Bolivia’s air force to seize two planes and briefly jail one of the compan...
Dec 05, 2016
British Santa tour worker fatally stabbed in Arctic Finland
HELSINKI - Finnish police say they are holding a 36-year-old foreigner suspected of fatally stabbing his female friend in the Arctic wilds of Lapland. Tourism officials say the victim was a British em...
Dec 05, 2016