Category Archives: Canadian Press
Fort McMurray wildfire recovery to spur $5.3 billion in spending, report says
CALGARY - The massive efforts to respond to and rebuild after the wildfire of Fort McMurray, Alta., will spur economic growth in the coming years but leave insurance companies and governments with a t...
Nov 15, 2016
Lack of government help drives more to food banks: report
OTTAWA - More Canadians are relying on food banks to feed themselves, a report released Tuesday suggests. The report by Food Banks Canada says last March some 863,492 people turned to a food bank, a 1...
Nov 15, 2016
Evacuation of New Zealand town cut off by quake nearly over
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand military leaders said Wednesday they had almost completed the evacuation of more than 700 tourists and residents from a small coastal town, two days after a power...
Nov 15, 2016
Japan rubber-mask makers happy to face a Trump presidency
SAITAMA, Japan - While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubbe...
Nov 15, 2016
Swimmers complete 7-hour crawl across shrinking Dead Sea
EIN GEDI, Israel - A multinational group of swimmers swam seven hours through the salty, soupy waters of the Dead Sea on Tuesday in a bid to draw attention to the environmental degradation of the fabl...
Nov 15, 2016
Researchers call for more science be put into environmental assessments
OTTAWA - A group of young scientific researchers has drafted an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing concern that current environmental assessments and regulatory reviews lack ̶...
Nov 15, 2016
Trudeau begins trade trip today with stop in Cuba
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Trudeau arrives in Cuba today, the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister in almost two decades. It is the first step in the Liberal government’s week-long bid...
Nov 15, 2016
Obama: World leaders must heed people's economic fears
ATHENS, Greece - Drawing a broad lesson from the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders need to pay attention to people’s very real fears of economic di...
Nov 15, 2016
Four stories in the news Tuesday, Nov. 15
Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 15 --- TRUDEAU HEADS TO CUBA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Cuba today for the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister to the country in ...
Nov 15, 2016
India struggles as millions throng banks to swap currency
NEW DELHI - India’s government said Tuesday it will use indelible ink to mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks as authorities struggle to deal with the bedlam caus...
Nov 15, 2016