Category Archives: Canadian Press
Tragically Hip's Gord Downie performing at We Day youth event in Halifax
HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie will be performing at a We Day youth empowerment event in Halifax today. His appearance at the event was announced early Wednesday morning, a day after Do...
Nov 30, 2016
Amanda Seyfried expecting first child with Thomas Sadoski
NEW YORK - Amanda Seyfried is pregnant with her first child. People magazine reports the actress made the announcement and showed off her baby bump in New York on Tuesday. Seyfried was appearing at an...
Nov 30, 2016
Canadian Olympic Committee partners with Sid Lee, agency behind 'We the North'
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors’ iconic “We the North” campaign generated a whopping 160 million impressions on social media in its launch season alone. But Vito Piazza didn’t ne...
Nov 30, 2016
President Obama: 'Michelle will never run for office'
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has tamped down any speculation that first lady Michelle Obama may one day run for office herself. In an interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner conducted t...
Nov 30, 2016
Hundreds protest Liberal refusal to act on Island electoral reform plebiscite
CHARLOTTETOWN - Hundreds of people demonstrated in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday evening calling on the provincial government to use the results of a recent plebiscite on electoral reform to change ...
Nov 30, 2016
Messy mix of snow, rain hits Maritimes, causing outages, closures
It could be sometime Thursday before some residents of New Brunswick have their power restored following a messy pre-winter storm - and there’s another storm on the way. A blast of heavy, wet sn...
Nov 30, 2016
Syrians fleeing government advances in Aleppo shelled
BEIRUT - A series of artillery rounds lobbed Wednesday on Syria’s eastern Aleppo district killed 26 civilians, including seven children, as they fled a government ground offensive in the besiege...
Nov 30, 2016
Deadly storms add to drought, flood and fires plaguing South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Five people were killed in two states after at least 13 twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the Nat...
Nov 30, 2016
Syria: Israeli jets strike outside Damascus, no casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria says Israeli jets have fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace toward the outskirts of Damascus. The official Syrian news agency, SANA, says the missiles struck the Sabboura ...
Nov 30, 2016
Trump's idea of 'presidential' diverges from past presidents
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right. “I will be so presidential t...
Nov 30, 2016