Category Archives: Canadian Press
Designer of Gord Downie's suits raises money with keychains built from leftovers
TORONTO - Keychains made from scraps of leather used to tailor Gord Downie’s eye-catching metallic suits were a hot item online Friday. In several hours the limited-edition keychains from fashio...
Dec 16, 2016
Health demands 'out of the realm' of what feds would consider: Morneau
OTTAWA - Canada’s finance minister is calling provincial demands for bigger federal health transfers “out of the realm” of anything Ottawa would consider as the federation appears he...
Dec 16, 2016
Midfielder Atiba Hutchinson voted Canada Soccer's male player of the year
OTTAWA - Atiba Hutchinson now has bragging rights over former teammate Dwayne De Rosario. The 33-year-old midfielder was named Canada Soccer’s top male player Friday for the third straight year ...
Dec 16, 2016
Leafs' Marincin sidelined four-to-six weeks with lower body injury; Enroth recalled
TORONTO - Defenceman Martin Marincin of the Toronto Maple Leafs will miss four-to-six weeks with a lower body injury. The team made the announcement Friday. The 24-year-old was injured in Toronto̵...
Dec 16, 2016
US says Chinese warship seized Navy underwater drone
WASHINGTON - A Chinese warship seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider that was collecting unclassified scientific data in the South China Sea, and the U.S. is demanding its return, the Pentagon...
Dec 16, 2016
Veteran running back Johnson signs contract extension with B.C. Lions
VANCOUVER - Running back Jeremiah Johnson signed a contract extension through the 2018 season with the B.C. Lions on Friday. Johnson was scheduled to become a free agent in February. “Jeremiah g...
Dec 16, 2016
Montreal police launch raids against illegal marijuana stores opened on Thursday
Montreal police launched raids Friday evening against illegal cannabis stores opened one day prior by the self-styled “Prince of Pot,” Marc Emery, and his wife, Jodie. Police say they made...
Dec 16, 2016
Minister pledges aboriginal housing improvements after fatal Ontario fire
OTTAWA - The federal government is determined to improve aboriginal housing, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Friday after an Ontario chief blasted Ottawa for a lack of action followin...
Dec 16, 2016
Tories, NDP try to damage the Liberals as they eagerly await new leaders in 2017
OTTAWA - Count the federal Conservatives and the NDP among those looking forward to a better year in 2017 - a year the two opposition parties are also counting on as a significant challenge for one Ju...
Dec 16, 2016
More Canadian women join top one per cent while gap with poor grows: report
MONTREAL - More women are joining the one-per-cent club but still accounted for less than one-quarter of the country’s top earners in 2014, according to Statistics Canada. Women made up 22 per c...
Dec 16, 2016