Category Archives: Canadian Press
EU chief aims to boost euro's role in world markets
BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he’ll unveil plans this year to boost the euro’s role in financial markets, which are dominated by the dollar. Juncker sai...
Sep 12, 2018
Officials to discuss ways to put and keep grain in high gear to port
SASKATOON - Getting grain to port at a faster and more efficient clip will be the focus of a meeting in Saskatoon involving the federal government, farm leaders and executives from Canada’s two ...
Sep 12, 2018

Quebec man doing well as doctors rejoice at first Canadian face transplant
MONTREAL - In a Canadian medical first, surgeons at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital announced Wednesday they’d performed a face transplant, giving a badly disfigured Quebec man a ...
Sep 12, 2018

Sailor accused of sexual assault headed back to U.K. because of infection
HALIFAX - A British sailor accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Halifax-area military base is expected to head back to the United Kingdom as he grapples with a serious infection that has delaye...
Sep 12, 2018
Nebraska's top court: Voters to decide on expanding Medicaid
LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska’s highest court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that would have stripped a Medicaid expansion proposal off the November ballot, clearing the way for voters to decide a mea...
Sep 12, 2018
Luke Bryan's free show to mark eatery opening draws 30,000
NASHVILLE - Country singer and songwriter Luke Bryan has hosted a free street concert to mark the opening of his new Tennessee restaurant that drew nearly 30,000 people to downtown Nashville. The Tenn...
Sep 12, 2018

Viola Davis has regrets about role in 'The Help'
NEW YORK - Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis has regrets about her role as a maid in the 2011 film “The Help.” The 53-year-old told The New York Times “it wasn’t the voices of ...
Sep 12, 2018
Residents of New Mexico compound indicted on federal charges
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Five residents of a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico are scheduled for arraignments and detention hearings after being indicted by a federal grand jury on firearms and cons...
Sep 12, 2018
East Coast military bases brace for Florence
RICHMOND, Va. - The Navy is moving people and ships ahead of Hurricane Florence , and the Air Force and Army are flying advanced aircraft elsewhere as a safeguard. Some remaining Marines, meanwhile, a...
Sep 12, 2018
Iran looks warily to China for help as US sanctions resume
TEHRAN, Iran - It’s hard not to see China wherever you look in Iran. From Chinese goods flooding markets to its business people eager for deals as Western business interests flee, Iran likely wi...
Sep 12, 2018