Category Archives: Canadian Press
Congress clears stopgap spending bill, $1.1B to fight Zika
WASHINGTON - Averting an election-year crisis, Congress late Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep the government operating through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed fundi...
Sep 28, 2016
BlackBerry to leave smartphone hardware business by end of February
WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry is heeding calls to leave the smartphone hardware business that once helped forge its reputation as a global technology leader before it got swept aside by the likes of App...
Sep 28, 2016
B.C. mill shooter guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder
NANAIMO, B.C. - The wife and daughter of a man killed in a shooting at a Vancouver Island mill held each other and cried Wednesday as a jury found the man’s attacker guilty on four charges. Kevi...
Sep 28, 2016
Clowns back out of parade amid rash of creepy clown reports
OAKLAND, Md. - A group of clowns in Maryland has decided not to take part in a parade amid a recent rash of creepy clown sightings across several states. Tom Holland, a member of the Ali Ghan Shrine C...
Sep 28, 2016
Quebec newspapers seek government help to face transition to digital
MONTREAL - Several Quebec newspaper publishers have formed a coalition to demand short-term financial support from the provincial and federal governments to help them shift to digital. The coalition r...
Sep 28, 2016
Tie-up of world's biggest beer makers clears final hurdle
LONDON - A deal worth over $100 billion to combine the world’s two biggest beer companies cleared its last major hurdle Wednesday when the shareholders of SABMiller approved the takeover by Budw...
Sep 28, 2016
Minister: 32,000 people arrested since failed coup in Turkey
ISTANBUL - The Turkish justice minister says 32,000 people have been arrested since the country’s failed coup, and more may follow. In a live interview with private broadcaster NTV on Wednesday,...
Sep 28, 2016
Some evacuation orders lifted in California wildfire areas
MORGAN HILL, Calif. - Some evacuations were lifted Wednesday as cooler weather gave firefighters a boost in their fight against a wildfire that is burning through bone-dry brush and threatening hundre...
Sep 28, 2016
California officer guns down man in 'shooting stance'
EL CAJON, Calif. - The fatal police shooting of a black man who drew something from his pocket and extended his hands in a “shooting stance” happened about a minute after officers in a San...
Sep 28, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Sept. 28
Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- TRUDEAU TO ATTEND SHIMON PERES FUNERAL Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join a list of world leaders in Israel on Friday for the funeral o...
Sep 28, 2016