Category Archives: Canadian Press
Clinton says highest glass ceiling will be shattered one day
NEW YORK - Gone was the ballroom with a soaring glass ceiling, the confetti and the celebrity guest stars. Instead, Hillary Clinton looked out to a group of grief-stricken aides and tearful supporters...
Nov 09, 2016

Donald Trump election win roils Canadian Conservative leadership race
OTTAWA - Donald Trump hadn’t even given his victory speech early Wednesday morning before his brash style of nativist, anti-immigrant rhetoric began intruding into the Canadian political scene. ...
Nov 09, 2016

The Latest: Biden sees no change in US-Israel relations
WASHINGTON - The Latest on the U.S. election. (All times EST): 11 p.m. Vice-President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s election victory should have little effect on U.S.-Israel relations. Biden was...
Nov 09, 2016
Hydroelectric dams spike methylmercury risk for indigenous people: Harvard study
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Muskrat Falls project will cause a spike in toxic methylmercury in wild food sources that are crucial to Labrador communities, says a new Harvard University study of hydro...
Nov 09, 2016

Trump and Canada: Seven ways northern neighbour could feel election aftershock
WASHINGTON - When an unpredictable nationalist gets elected to lead the globe’s biggest superpower, the political shockwaves from the ground-shaking event will inevitably be felt by the next-doo...
Nov 09, 2016

Obama, urging unity, says he's rooting for Trump's success
WASHINGTON - In an awkward political ritual, President Barack Obama urged the nation Wednesday to join him in rooting for President-elect Donald Trump’s success, even as he and his shell-shocked...
Nov 09, 2016

Stock markets rise as investors warm to idea of Trump U.S. presidency
TORONTO - Canada’s biggest stock market rose while Wall Street hovered around record levels Wednesday, as investors warmed to the idea that the victory of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will ...
Nov 09, 2016

Trudeau puts best face on Trump victory in U.S. presidential election
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is choosing to highlight the one goal he has in common with Donald Trump - improving the lot of the embattled middle class - as his government comes to grips wit...
Nov 09, 2016
Scenes from the U.S. election: She sought to make history, he upended the story
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton’s voice was being drowned out at her own rally. A murmur rippled through the overflow area, as supporters watched her speech from a nearby screen. The commotion̵...
Nov 09, 2016

Police: 7 killed in London early morning tram derailment
LONDON - Seven people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram derailed while rounding a tight curve in a rainstorm in south London Wednesday, police said. Investigators said the train, which ...
Nov 09, 2016