Category Archives: Canadian Press

'Not a politician:' Ex-chief planner sets sights on Toronto mayoralty
TORONTO - A professional urban planner considered a credible, if long-shot challenger to Toronto’s incumbent mayor in October’s municipal vote is set to hold her first campaign rally Thurs...
Aug 22, 2018
B.C. records second-highest monthly fatal overdoses so far in 2018
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s coroners service says 134 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in July, a 25 per cent increase from June. The latest fatalities are the second-highest figures of a...
Aug 22, 2018

Disney offers tuition for hourly workers in tight job market
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Walt Disney Co. is offering to pay full tuition for hourly workers who want to earn a college degree, finish a high school diploma or learn a new skill, the entertainment giant sai...
Aug 22, 2018

Blue Jays Sanchez ready for return to mound after freak finger injury
TORONTO - Aaron Sanchez was reluctant to share how he hurt the middle finger on his pitching hand when it happened two months ago. Now that he’s poised to return to the major league mound, he...
Aug 22, 2018

Canada 'very encouraged' by progress on US-Mexican NAFTA talks: Freeland
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she’s “very encouraged” by signals from Washington that the United States and Mexico are close to figuring out their bilatera...
Aug 22, 2018
Jays open 2019 season vs. Detroit, will face Yanks in Rogers Centre anniversary
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will open the 2019 season on March 28 against visiting Detroit. The Jays will also mark 30 years at Rogers Centre when they host the New York Yankees on June 5, the ann...
Aug 22, 2018

Bernier should decide if he wants Trudeau to win next election, Rempel says
OTTAWA - In an attempt to set the narrative for this week’s policy convention in Halifax, Andrew Scheer’s Conservative team laid out its policy agenda for “fair, orderly and compassi...
Aug 22, 2018

Infrastructure agency hands $1.28 billion loan to Montreal rail project
OTTAWA - A nascent federal agency designed to find new ways to finance construction of transit systems is making its first investment in a multibillion-dollar electric rail system in Montreal. The Can...
Aug 22, 2018
Lost Jagger-Simon duet found after more than 45 years
LONDON - A lost Mick Jagger duet with Carly Simon has been found more than 45 years after it was first recorded. The song, apparently never heard in public, appears to have been recorded in 1972 and w...
Aug 22, 2018

Actor says he feared speaking out about Argento assault
LOS ANGELES - A young actor who alleged in legal documents that Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento sexually assaulted him when he was 17 said Wednesday that his trauma resurfaced when Argento ...
Aug 22, 2018