Category Archives: Canadian Press
NBC to televise Augusta Women's Amateur final round
AUGUSTA, Ga. - NBC Sports will televise the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur from the home course of the Masters. The club announced the creation of the women’s event ea...
Sep 12, 2018
Moon rock hunter closes in on tracking down missing stones
SALT LAKE CITY - A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years...
Sep 12, 2018
Iraq: Car bomb explosion kills at least 6 north of Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say a car bomb has exploded outside a restaurant north of Baghdad killing at least six people. Iraq’s Joint Operations Command says the explosives-laden car ignited Wed...
Sep 12, 2018
Ex-employees: Doc in sex abuse inquiry aimed ads at students
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State University team doctor accused of groping scores of young men decades ago also had an off-campus men’s clinic that was marketed in the campus newspaper with a ser...
Sep 12, 2018
Pope OKs probe into US bishop as he meets with US delegation
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop Thursday and authorized an investigation into allegations he sexually harassed adults, adding awkward drama to an audience with U....
Sep 12, 2018

Mary Ng, new federal minister, tasked with getting companies to look beyond U.S.
OTTAWA - One of Canada’s newest cabinet ministers is tasked with making progress on a long-running challenge: encouraging more businesses to chase opportunities beyond the comforts of North Amer...
Sep 12, 2018

EU lawmakers move to punish Hungary over rule of law
BRUSSELS - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a rare political setback Wednesday as European Union lawmakers voted to pursue unprecedented action against his government for allegedly under...
Sep 12, 2018
Hurry hard, where? Calgary 2026 draft hosting plan missing a curling venue
CALGARY - If Calgary bids and wins the right to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the plan is to re-use the majority of venues from the 1988 Winter Olympics in the city and nearby Canmore, A...
Sep 12, 2018
Halifax to proceed with bylaw banning all smoking on municipal property
Halifax is moving ahead with a sweeping ban on smoking on municipal property as of Oct. 1, roughly two weeks before the federal legalization of recreational cannabis comes into effect. Council decided...
Sep 12, 2018
Man at centre of Nobel scandal to face trial this month
COPENHAGEN - A Swedish court says the trial of the man at the centre of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature will face a tr...
Sep 12, 2018