Category Archives: Canadian Press

Calgary 2026 says price tag of Winter Games in Calgary would be $5.23 billion
Calgary councillors voted Tuesday to keep the city’s bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games alive, after a draft plan presented to council revealed the total cost of hosting the ga...
Sep 11, 2018

Last man to emerge from mine disaster in Springhill, N.S., dies at 95
SPRINGHILL, N.S. - The last man to emerge from a shattered Nova Scotia mine 60 years ago has died. Herb Pepperdine was 95 years old when he passed away Friday in Springhill, N.S. His obituary says Pep...
Sep 11, 2018
AP Interview: Iran nuclear chief hopes deal will survive
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s nuclear chief said Tuesday he hopes Tehran’s landmark atomic deal with world powers will survive President Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from it, warning the Isla...
Sep 11, 2018

Bus accident in south India kills at least 55 people
HYDERABAD, India - A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road Tuesday, killing at least 55 people including four children, officials said. At least 33 o...
Sep 11, 2018

Hudson's Bay Co., Austria-based Signa form joint venture in European retail
TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. has struck a deal to merge its German department stores with its biggest rival in the European market. The Toronto-based retailer, which owns Galeria Kaufhof, announce...
Sep 11, 2018

Immigration fuelling French-immersion demand as provinces vie for teachers
VANCOUVER - Back-to-school buzz only led to worry for a Vancouver father fretting about his daughter’s chances of getting into French immersion - a year before she starts kindergarten. Prokopi K...
Sep 11, 2018

'Famous Fingers' campaign prods men to get tested for prostate cancer
TORONTO - Prostate Cancer Canada is encouraging men to get tested for the potentially deadly disease with a bold campaign that references historical and fictional characters in the form of latex glove...
Sep 11, 2018

Bernier says he will not take any more phone calls from far-right leader
OTTAWA - Quebec MP Maxime Bernier says he will have no further discussions with the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party. Travis Patron, the leader of the far-right group, says he called Bernier...
Sep 11, 2018

In the news today, Sept. 11
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Sept. 11 --- FREELAND IN WASHINGTON TO RESUME NAFTA TALKS TODAY Canada and the United States will restart high-level talks today on the North American Free Trade ...
Sep 11, 2018

Guns, border crossers top list of concerns Liberal MPs bring to caucus retreat
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs are flooding into Saskatoon to plot strategy for the fall parliamentary sitting which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will not include resetting the government’s agenda. ...
Sep 11, 2018