Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada's stagnant, slipping national wealth overly reliant on oil and gas: study
OTTAWA - A comprehensive measure of Canada’s national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report...
Dec 01, 2016
DND removes report critical of 'interim' fighter jet purchase from website
OTTAWA - An internal defence study that dismissed any plan to buy “interim” fighter jets because of “significant additional costs,” has been pulled off the National Defence web...
Dec 01, 2016
Documents show two internal reviews completed in Winnipeg remand deaths
WINNIPEG - Five deaths this year at the Winnipeg Remand Centre are a sharp increase from previous years and internal reviews on two deaths have already been completed, documents obtained by The Canadi...
Dec 01, 2016
Sons of Ethel Rosenberg plead with Obama to exonerate mother
WASHINGTON - The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a last-ditch appeal to President ...
Dec 01, 2016
Death toll from Tennessee wildfires increases to 11
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Crews discovered the remains of more people as they searched the rubble of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses near the Great Smoky Mountains, bringing the deat...
Dec 01, 2016
Blue Jays GM says Morales allows team to stay aggressive, be more opportunistic
TORONTO - Some big free-agent dominoes could fall at the upcoming baseball winter meetings near Washington. Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said Thursday he expects teams and agents will soon be...
Dec 01, 2016
Trump has now named half cabinet, with pick of general: What his team looks like
WASHINGTON - With the nomination of retired general James (Mad Dog) Mattis as his defence secretary Thursday, Donald Trump has now named about half his cabinet. This allows some tea-leaf-reading about...
Dec 01, 2016
Former Ontario doctor reprimanded after committee finds he sexually abused patient
TORONTO - The agency charged with overseeing Ontario’s physicians issued a scathing reprimand to a former family doctor who it says lured a patient into his office after hours “under the p...
Dec 01, 2016
Some facts about the report tabled Thursday by the election reform committee
OTTAWA - A special all-party Commons committee is recommending a new proportional voting system, along with a national referendum to gauge public support for changing the way Canadians vote. Some fact...
Dec 01, 2016
Quebec cookie facility to close, throwing 454 people out of work
MONTREAL - The decision by international food giant Mondelez to close a cookie and cracker factory in Montreal by 2017 is final, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. As a result, 454 jobs will be elim...
Dec 01, 2016