Category Archives: Canadian Press
Memorial site: Alberta apologizes to families for cleaning up plane wreckage
WHITECOURT, Alta. - The province of Alberta is apologizing to the families of three people killed in a plane crash almost 65 years ago after cleaning up the wreckage without warning. A memorial site i...
Jul 16, 2018
AP Analysis: Billionaires fuel powerful state charter groups
SEATTLE - Dollar for dollar, the beleaguered movement to bring charter schools to Washington state has had no bigger champion than billionaire Bill Gates. The Microsoft co-founder gave millions of dol...
Jul 16, 2018

Queen's Plate winner Wonder Gadot to run in $400,000 Prince of Wales race
There won’t be a Wonder Gadot-Flameaway showdown at the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes. The prospect of the two Mark Casse-trained horses squaring off in the second jewel of the OLG Canadian Tr...
Jul 16, 2018
Indigenous housing providers raise alarms about future of federal funding deals
OTTAWA - Indigenous social housing providers will soon push the federal government to rethink plans to overhaul their funding arrangements because they worry the Liberal proposals could leave thousand...
Jul 16, 2018

Wave of condemnation hits Trump after summit with Putin
WASHINGTON - “Bizarre.” ”Shameful.” ”Disgraceful.” That’s the swift and sweeping condemnation directed at President Donald Trump on Monday after he sided with...
Jul 16, 2018
2 arrested in fatal shooting after 2016 Meek Mill concert
WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two people outside a 2016 Meek Mill concert in Connecticut. Police on Monday said 23-year-old Kyle Hampton, of...
Jul 16, 2018
Soccer diplomacy: World Cup host Putin gives Trump a ball
HELSINKI - Riding high after hosting a successful World Cup, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought a special gift to his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump: a soccer ball. After a journalist a...
Jul 16, 2018
Ontario Tory minister flip-flops on sex-ed curriculum stance
TORONTO - Ontario’s education minister went back and forth Monday on just what students will learn while her government scraps the province’s modernized sex-ed curriculum. Ultimately, Lisa...
Jul 16, 2018

'City of icebergs:' Study says 100s of Arctic glaciers shrinking, disappearing
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely. But for Adrienne White, seven f...
Jul 16, 2018

Flames sign forward Lindholm to six-year contract with AAV of $4.85 million
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames have signed forward Elias Lindholm to a six-year contract with an average annual value of US$4.85 million. The native of Boden, Sweden was acquired by Calgary along with d...
Jul 16, 2018