Category Archives: Canadian Press

Women in Canadian politics look ahead to possible female U.S. president
OTTAWA - Kim Campbell has made no secret about who she would prefer to see win the U.S. presidential election. The former Progressive Conservative prime minister has been vocal in her distaste for Rep...
Nov 07, 2016

Defenceman Jacob Trouba signs two-year, $6-million deal with Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff expects Jacob Trouba to be welcomed back by his Winnipeg Jets teammates and their fans. The holdout defenceman re-signed with the NHL club on Monday, inki...
Nov 07, 2016
US consumer borrowing rose in September
WASHINGTON - American consumers boosted their borrowing in September, a potential sign that recent job growth and wage gains have left them slightly more comfortable with holding debt. The Federal Res...
Nov 07, 2016
Janet Reno, former US attorney general, dies at age 78
MIAMI - Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general. She was also at the epicenter of a relentless series of political storms...
Nov 07, 2016
Young Atlantic Canadians shouldn't have to leave home to find jobs: IBM exec
HALIFAX - The thousands of young people graduating from Atlantic Canada’s colleges and universities every year shouldn’t have to look for work outside the region’s borders now that t...
Nov 07, 2016
FSIN chief backs banishment of drug dealers to protect children on reserve
REGINA - The chief of Saskatchewan’s Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says he supports bands that want to exile criminals. Bobby Cameron, who represents 74 of the province’s Firs...
Nov 07, 2016
Lowlights from an American election that set a new standard for scandal
WASHINGTON - A big U.S. election controversy used to involve revelations of an old affair or a drunk-driving allegation. Al Gore caused a small one by rolling his eyes during a televised leaders’...
Nov 07, 2016

Confront scourge of sexual abuse, stand up for children, Inuit leaders demand
OTTAWA - Prominent Inuit politicians are urging Canada’s leaders - indigenous and otherwise - to protect children from the scourge of sexual abuse and suicide running through indigenous communit...
Nov 07, 2016
Father remembers son's last night alive before Winnipeg police shooting
WINNIPEG - The father of a man shot and killed by Winnipeg police told an inquest examining the death he still carries memories of police lights and the body of his son outside their home. “I ke...
Nov 07, 2016

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre says he never asked police to spy on reporter
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre defended himself Monday against accusations a call he made to his police chief in 2014 caused a journalist to be put under surveillance. The mayor said he contacted then-p...
Nov 07, 2016