Category Archives: Canadian Press
Berlin truck attack suspect killed in Milan police shootout
MILAN - The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy’s ...
Dec 23, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 23
Four stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 23 --- N.B. HEALTH DEAL SPLINTERS PROVINCIAL FRONT New Brunswick’s decision to strike a separate health funding deal with the Trudeau government has wea...
Dec 23, 2016
Assad won back Aleppo, but immense challenges lie ahead
BEIRUT - Hundreds of people returned to eastern Aleppo neighbourhoods on Friday to check on their homes after the last opposition fighters left the city, picking through debris and wreckage for person...
Dec 23, 2016
Much more needs to be done to confront abuse in indigenous communities: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Much more needs to be done to confront the crime of sexual abuse of children in indigenous communities, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who anticipates the national inquiry into missing a...
Dec 23, 2016
Trump's cabinet, in summary: How rich, how conservative, how friendly to Canada?
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump has now named most of his cabinet picks, including the senior positions. Here’s what the next U.S. administration looks like: -Quite conservative Trump is only occasion...
Dec 23, 2016
'Where Jesus would hang out:' Mall chapel to attract people with lounge, hockey
EDMONTON - There will be no pews and no pulpit, but plenty of coffee and even some puck watching. A chapel on the second floor of West Edmonton Mall, just down from the World Waterpark and tucked in n...
Dec 23, 2016
Ontario university facility create 'smallest snowman' from silica spheres
Days before Christmas, a research scientist at an Ontario university has created a microscopic figure he’s calling the world’s “smallest snowman.” Todd Simpson, from Western Un...
Dec 23, 2016
Australia police: Christmas Day bomb plot foiled, 5 detained
CANBERRA, Australia - Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day attacks using explosives, knives and a gun in the heart of the country’s second-l...
Dec 23, 2016
In icy Alaska, footwear options abound to stay upright
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Darrell Bachmann doesn’t wear ruby slippers, but when he clicks his heel, something magical happens. Bachmann invented KickSpikes, a boot designed to walk on ice. Kick a butt...
Dec 23, 2016
2 Kosovo-born men held in suspected German mall attack plot
BERLIN - Two Kosovo-born brothers were detained Friday on suspicion that they were planning to carry out an attack on a shopping mall in western Germany, days after a truck attack in Berlin that kille...
Dec 22, 2016