Category Archives: Canadian Press
The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 6 RCMP COMMISSIONER APOLOGIZES: RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologized Thursday to hundreds of current and former female officers and employees who w...
Oct 06, 2016
Engage early to avoid First Nations veto, AFN chief tells energy conference
OTTAWA - Free, prior and informed indigenous consent means the right to say yes or no to major resource projects, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told an oil industry-sponsored ene...
Oct 06, 2016
Data shows steep ramp up in penalties on companies shifting profits abroad
CALGARY - Life is getting harder for Canadian multinationals trying to reduce taxes by transferring profits abroad. In its latest budget, the federal government committed to increasing enforcement eff...
Oct 06, 2016
About 200 assisted deaths under new law, but details impossible to come by
TORONTO - About 200 Canadians have received help killing themselves since legislation authorizing medically assisted suicide came into force in June, new figures obtained by The Canadian Press show, b...
Oct 06, 2016
Some of what was said Thursday about RCMP's landmark harassment settlement
OTTAWA - Some of what was said Thursday when RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologized and announced the details of a settlement with a group of female Mounties who alleged widespread bullying, abuse a...
Oct 06, 2016
Government deploys team to Haiti to assess needs after Hurricane Matthew
OTTAWA - The federal government has deployed a team to Haiti to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew and determine what assistance Canada can provide. “The team is in the field right no...
Oct 06, 2016
Airlines cancel hundreds of flights as hurricane hits US
Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights for Thursday and again Friday as Hurricane Matthew pelted the Florida coast with high winds and heavy rain. The Fort Lauderdale airport shut down on Thursday mor...
Oct 06, 2016
Pens will be challenged in East by threats from Caps, Bolts, Panthers
The Pittsburgh Penguins looked nothing like a threat to win the Eastern Conference, let alone a Stanley Cup, when Mike Johnston was fired in mid-December. That changed when Mike Sullivan spurred a tur...
Oct 06, 2016
'Ripped out of my classroom:' But Jewish groups pleased over prof's suspension
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A longtime university professor whose online comments about the Holocaust and Israel have angered Jewish groups says his suspension undermines academic freedom and is unfair to stu...
Oct 06, 2016
US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing
PORTLAND, Maine - The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would ...
Oct 06, 2016