Category Archives: Canadian Press
Christmas delivery at space station, courtesy of Japan
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan. A Japanese cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab four days after launching. The caps...
Dec 13, 2016
Chinese treated to clear views of another supermoon
BEIJING - Another supermoon has landed in the skies over China. The moon shone brightly Tuesday night in Beijing, as the smog that often blankets China’s capital and most of the industrial north...
Dec 13, 2016
Russian opposition leader Navalny announces presidential bid
MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday officially announced his bid to run in the 2018 presidential election, a move that political observers say puts pressure on President Vladi...
Dec 13, 2016
Obama: President without briefings would be 'flying blind'
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama says any president who shuns daily intelligence briefings would be “flying blind” on national security matters, a stiff push-back against Donald TrumpR...
Dec 13, 2016
Drivers' strike cripples train services in southern England
LONDON - A 48-hour strike by train drivers crippled rail services Tuesday in southern England as a long-running dispute delayed and cancelled journeys for hundreds of thousands of London commuters. Th...
Dec 13, 2016
Italy's new government wins 1st of 2 confidence votes
ROME - Premier Paolo Gentiloni easily won a vote of confidence Tuesday night from the Italian Parliament’s lower chamber for his new government, overcoming opposition outrage that his cabinet an...
Dec 13, 2016
Justice tracking more than 100 constitutional challenges to mandatory penalties
OTTAWA - Justice reforms brought in by the previous Conservative government in the name of getting tough on criminals “compounded pressures” on the system - a litigation-fuelled backlash t...
Dec 13, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 13
Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 13 --- FEDS OPEN DOOR TO MORE SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES Health Minister Jane Philpott has unveiled a plan to open more supervised injection sites in Canada....
Dec 13, 2016
Parliament's budget watchdog, National Defence battling over warship data
OTTAWA - National Defence and Parliament’s budget watchdog have been quietly battling over access to key information about the government’s multi-billion-dollar plan to buy the navy new wa...
Dec 13, 2016
Grip of drug addiction shapes new ideas to reduce risk of deadly fentanyl
VANCOUVER - Watching an addict fill a syringe with puddle water, former senior RCMP officer Raf Souccar imagined a radical shift in how Canada could deal with people in the grip of drug addition - by ...
Dec 13, 2016