Category Archives: Canadian Press
Clarification to Aug. 20 story on B.C. wildfires
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Press reported in a story about wildfires in British Columbia on Aug. 20 that a senior scientist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control said pregnant women should take precaut...
Aug 21, 2018
Lawmakers want Congressional Gold Medal for Aretha Franklin
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is introducing legislation to honour Aretha Franklin posthumously with the Congressional Gold Medal. The “Queen of Soul,” who ...
Aug 21, 2018

Canada's team chasing elusive gold medal at women's baseball World Cup
When Nicole Luchanski returned home with a silver medal from the last women’s baseball World Cup, she tucked the shiny piece of hardware away in a drawer. The veteran second baseman hasn’t...
Aug 21, 2018

Toronto resident stuck in Kerala recounts days in flooded neighbourhood
A Toronto resident visiting family in the Indian state of Kerala says major floods in the region left him and his relatives largely confined to a home without power for days as flooded roads prevented...
Aug 21, 2018
Effort to help monarch butterflies gets boost in marketplace
MONTREAL - An initiative to market milkweed for the benefit of monarch butterflies - and the farmers in Quebec and Vermont who grow it - is getting a boost from a Canadian parka company that is renewi...
Aug 21, 2018
People injured in Mississauga, Ont., restaurant bombing file suit against owners
TORONTO - Six of the 15 people injured in a bombing west of Toronto in May are suing the restaurant where the incident took place, their lawyers said Tuesday, alleging the business’s owners and ...
Aug 21, 2018
Venezuelans confused over new bills under economic overhaul
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans confused over the new banknotes popping out of their ATMs on Tuesday resorted to using calculators and conversion charts to figure out the value of each bill as the co...
Aug 21, 2018

Injury-ravaged Toronto FC still having trouble getting off the ground
TORONTO - Given Toronto FC’s up-and-down season, perhaps it’s no surprise that the team’s flight home from San Francisco was cancelled Sunday. The team had been scheduled to land in ...
Aug 21, 2018

Liberals unveil poverty plan with lofty goals, but no new spending programs
OTTAWA - The Liberal government lifted the veil on what it billed Tuesday as a bold plan to strike a blow against poverty across Canada by the end of the next decade - but the plan is absent any new s...
Aug 21, 2018
Archbishop devastated by sex abuse report: 'The evil goes deeper than imagined'
HALIFAX - The Archbishop of Halifax says the Roman Catholic church is in crisis and there is an urgent need for change. Archbishop Anthony Mancini has condemned new reports of sexual abuse by priests,...
Aug 21, 2018