Category Archives: Canadian Press
Federal subsidy failing to keep northern food healthy, affordable: study
A researcher has found that a federal subsidy intended to reduce astronomical food prices for northern families has resulted in stale-dated, unreliable food on store shelves without making grocery bil...
Dec 04, 2016
Six things to know about the bovine TB outbreak: CFIA's chief veterinary officer
OTTAWA - More than 22,000 cattle at farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are quarantined due to bovine tuberculosis, causing hardship for ranchers and millions in compensation payments and other costs. T...
Dec 04, 2016
Office design, economic setbacks spur jump in corporate art collection auctions
CALGARY - When Xerox Canada moved its Toronto headquarters into a 33,500-square-foot building in North York in August, it just couldn’t find a place for Dance of the Owl. The square stonecut-and...
Dec 04, 2016
UK foreign secretary downplays EU payment suggestions
LONDON - Britain’s foreign secretary dismissed as “speculation” suggestions that the U.K. would pay for tariff-free trade with the European Union after it leaves the bloc. Boris John...
Dec 04, 2016
Imprisoned former CIA officer fights conviction over leak
RICHMOND, Va. - Once an employee of the powerful CIA, Jeffrey Sterling now sits behind bars at a federal prison in Colorado. He bides his time by reading and writing and working at the facility’...
Dec 04, 2016
US releases Guantanamo prisoner, resettles him in Cape Verde
MIAMI - A prisoner from Yemen at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has been released and sent to the West African nation of Cape Verde for resettlement. The Pentagon says the release announced Sunda...
Dec 04, 2016
Experts warn of mental health woes as wildfires ravage South
ATLANTA - When U.S. Forest Ranger Jody Bandy confronted the man in the Pisgah National Forest, he said he’d been at the nearby wildfire and “couldn’t take it anymore.” Then he ...
Dec 04, 2016
Trump faces pushback from base, allies over Romney musings
NEW YORK - As President-elect Donald Trump stood onstage during the debut night of his “thank you” tour and teased that he was about to announce a surprise Cabinet pick, some in the Ohio c...
Dec 04, 2016
Correction: Oil Pipeline-Protest story
CANNON BALL, N.D. - In a story Dec. 4 about an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would not grant the ...
Dec 04, 2016
Mummers seek inclusive tone after racially sensitive display
PHILADELPHIA - Organizers of the Mummers Parade are hopeful that cultural education efforts will help the city’s annual New Year’s celebration be more respectful and inclusive following a ...
Dec 04, 2016