Category Archives: Canadian Press

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 11 --- RAIN, WIND WREAK HAVOC IN ATLANTIC CANADA Thousands of homes and businesses across Atlantic Canada were without electricity early today due to heavy ra...

TORONTO - Unifor says Fiat Chrysler has commited to invest a total of $554 million at its Ontario plants in addition to increasing wages and benefits for the union’s members in line with a patte...

OTTAWA - The federal government is under quiet, but growing pressure to focus housing spending on the neediest, instead of forging ahead with a national plan aimed at the entire housing spectrum. The ...

GATINEAU, Que. - Canada’s top special forces soldier has been fined $2,000 after accidentally firing his weapon near another military officer last year. A military judge handed down the punishme...

OTTAWA - The federal government is keeping closer tabs on a student loan program targeting doctors and nurses after many of them had loans mistakenly forgiven over the past two years. The federal gove...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Women voters in swing states are expressing deep disgust about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s assertion that an old tape featuring him talking about groping wo...

GREENVILLE, N.C. - A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high w...

WASHINGTON - The “shackles” gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the pres...

BOSTON - Goose poop is piling up in parks and playgrounds in Boston and city officials are looking for ways to rein it in. The City Council is holding a public hearing Tuesday to discuss ways to mitig...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sure is hard to send these San Francisco Giants home in October. Joe Panik doubled off the right-centre wall in the 13th inning to drive in Brandon Crawford, and the Giants outlasted t...