Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canadian Simon d'Artois soars to World Cup ski halfpipe gold
Canada’s Simon d’Artois notched his first World Cup ski halfpipe win of his career on Thursday in Secret Garden, China. The 26-year-old from Whistler, B.C., scored 93.60 points in his fina...
Dec 20, 2018
Canadian Press business newsmaker of the year selections over the years
OTTAWA - A list of The Canadian Press business newsmakers of the year, as determined in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country: 2018: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland 2017: Federal F...
Dec 20, 2018
NAFTA drama earns Chrystia Freeland CP's Business Newsmaker of 2018
OTTAWA - There will be drama. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland took pains to predict that in a lengthy August 2017 speech that spelled out Canada’s goals at the start of the North Amer...
Dec 20, 2018
Tobacco giant strides into vape market with $13B Juul stake
Altria, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, is spending nearly $13 billion to buy a huge stake in the vape company Juul as cigarette use continues to decline. The Marlboro maker said T...
Dec 20, 2018
What makes chickens happy? University of Guelph researchers try to find out
NEW YORK - How do you measure a chicken’s happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, research...
Dec 20, 2018
4 faced scrutiny before arrest in Tibbetts case
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Before investigators arrested a farmhand in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, they scrutinized a neighbour seen washing his car hours after she vanished, an ac...
Dec 20, 2018
Belgium edges France to end 2018 on top of FIFA rankings
ZURICH - Belgium ends 2018 atop FIFA’s rankings with World Cup winner France at No. 2. FIFA says Belgium is a single ranking point - 1,727 to 1,726 - ahead of a French team which won their World...
Dec 20, 2018
UN: Women migrants in Libya often face gang rape, abuse
GENEVA - The “overwhelming majority” of women and older girls who passed through Libya as migrants reported being gang-raped by traffickers or having witnessed others taken away to be sexu...
Dec 20, 2018
Pentagon scrambles on Syria exit amid withdrawal outrage
WASHINGTON - Military leaders were scrambling Thursday to devise a swift but safe departure of troops from Syria, as outraged lawmakers appealed to President Donald Trump to reverse an abrupt withdraw...
Dec 20, 2018
3 astronauts return from International Space Station
MOSCOW - Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Serge...
Dec 20, 2018