Category Archives: Canadian Press
Business groups say technical issues must be resolved to reap CETA benefits
EDMONTON - Several high-profile Canadian business and agriculture groups say the signing of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union will reap big rewards. ...
Oct 30, 2016
Alouettes end Stampeders' win streak; Calgary falls short of record
MONTREAL - At this point in the season the Montreal Alouettes aren’t playing for wins, they’re playing for their careers. Montreal stunned the league-best Stampeders 17-8 at Stade Percival...
Oct 30, 2016
Rejuvenated Hazard shines in another Chelsea win
MANCHESTER, England - Every goal and stand-out performance by Chelsea winger Eden Hazard in the Premier League makes his insipid form of last season even more of a mystery. The Belgium international t...
Oct 30, 2016
Inside the vote: how Tory MP Michelle Rempel passed her motion on the Yazidis
OTTAWA - Nadia Murad had tears in her eyes as she described the power that individual MPs can have when they stand up to vote. A few minutes earlier, she had watched 313 MPs vote unanimously in favour...
Oct 30, 2016
Drogba not in Impact lineup for playoff game against Red Bulls due to sore back
MONTREAL - Striker Didier Drogba, nursing a sore back, was not in the Montreal Impact lineup for a playoff game Sunday against the New York Red Bulls. Drogba was to miss a third straight game, althoug...
Oct 30, 2016
Iceland's centre-right seeks to govern as Pirates hail gains
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - There was no Pirate takeover, but the upstart party managed to make waves in Iceland. The country’s party leaders were beginning meetings Sunday with Iceland’s preside...
Oct 30, 2016
Bailey Bram lifts Canada over Finland 4-1 in Four Nations Cup tune-up game
VIERUMAKI, Finland - Bailey Bram scored the eventual winner near the midway point of the second period as Canada’s national women’s team topped Finland 4-1 on Sunday in a tune-up match ahe...
Oct 30, 2016
Police in El Salvador arrest former President Tony Saca
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca was arrested Saturday for alleged illicit enrichment, unlawful association and money laundering, prosecutors said. Saca, a former radi...
Oct 30, 2016
4 states to weigh tougher gun control in Nov. 8 election
The last time voters in Maine were asked about gun rights, they easily passed a constitutional amendment creating a right to own firearms that “shall never be questioned.” Three decades la...
Oct 30, 2016
Turkey fires 10,000 more civil servants, shuts media outlets
ISTANBUL - Turkey expanded its sweeping post-coup crackdown over the weekend, issuing two new governmental decrees that dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants and shutting down 15 mostly pro-Kurdis...
Oct 30, 2016