Category Archives: Canadian Press
In dash to November, campaigns pin hopes on turnout efforts
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Over pizza and cupcakes, Jose Nunez implored a crowd of University of Iowa students to pull out their smartphones and start sharing with online friends their personal reasons for bac...
Sep 10, 2016
After 15 years, last artifacts of 9-11 have been given away
NEW YORK - Behind the barbed wire, the minivan’s busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarmac, be...
Sep 10, 2016
Election hacks raise fears of Russian influence
WASHINGTON - Recent hacks of election data systems in at least two states have raised fear among lawmakers and intelligence officials that a foreign government is trying to seed doubt about - or even ...
Sep 10, 2016
After 15 years, last artifacts of 9-11 have been given away
NEW YORK - Behind the barbed wire, the white minivan’s busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarm...
Sep 10, 2016
Opposition disorder, China, cable TV: 3 things in federal politics this week
OTTAWA - It was a week of semantic satiation in Ottawa, with politicos parsing “anti-Canadian values” so many times that the phrase seemed to become almost meaningless. Conservative leader...
Sep 10, 2016
Streisand uses song to mock Trump at Clinton fundraiser
NEW YORK - Barbra Streisand put her feelings about Donald Trump into song Friday night. At an LGBT fundraiser for Hillary Clinton Friday, the singer performed a parody of the Stephen Sondheim song ...
Sep 10, 2016
Ex-CIDA staffers need a decade to adjust to 'cultural change': report
OTTAWA - Former employees of now defunct Canadian International Development Agency might need as long as a decade to get used to the idea they have been subsumed by the larger foreign ministry. That i...
Sep 10, 2016
Site C project not in keeping with constitution or UN declaration: Bellegarde
OTTAWA - The federal government’s approach to the Site C dam project in British Columbia is not in keeping with Canada’s constitution nor with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenou...
Sep 10, 2016
Facebook co-founder pledging $20 million to defeat Trump
WASHINGTON - With a new promise of $20 million to help defeat Donald Trump, billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz becomes one of the top Democratic donors of the election The Silicon Valley...
Sep 10, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's false claim of opposing the Iraq War
NEW YORK - Over and over again, Donald Trump says he opposed the Iraq War before it started. But no matter how many times the Republican candidate for president says it, the facts are clear: He did no...
Sep 10, 2016