Category Archives: Canadian Press

Survey: US businesses add just 147,000 jobs in October
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in four months in October, as construction and manufacturing firms continued to shed workers, a private survey says. Payroll provider ADP says busines...
Nov 02, 2016

Iraqi forces consolidate their gains in eastern Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi special forces mopping up in territory seized in eastern Mosul killed eight Islamic State militants Wednesday as residents fled to safety from nearby areas and men shaved the beard...
Nov 02, 2016
Canadian man pleads guilty to walking on Yellowstone spring
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. - One of four Canadian men accused of walking onto a sensitive hot spring at Yellowstone National Park has pleaded guilty to the charges. The National Park Service says Hamis...
Nov 02, 2016

Longtime CBC comedian Dave Broadfoot dead at 90
TORONTO - Whether it was playing a comical Mountie or performing for the U.S. president, Dave Broadfoot was deeply committed to Canadian culture and his craft, his colleagues said Wednesday in paying ...
Nov 02, 2016
Journalist who entered Muskrat Falls with protesters to argue injunction
GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A journalist who was ordered to appear in court over his presence at a Muskrat Falls protest says his lawyer has informed the court he will argue he shouldn’t have been include...
Nov 02, 2016
Swiss police raid mosque in northern city; 8 detained
GENEVA - Swiss police raided a mosque in a northern city on Wednesday, detaining eight people including an Ethiopian imam who allegedly called for the killing of Muslims who refused to participate in ...
Nov 02, 2016
Mom charged with giving kids heroin to help them sleep
TACOMA, Wash. - A Washington state mother is charged with giving her three small children heroin after a boy told investigators his mother used a needle to inject him and his sisters with “feel ...
Nov 02, 2016

Latest: Man describes confrontations with shooting suspect
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Latest on two officers in the Des Moines, Iowa, area who were killed in what authorities describe as ambush-style attacks (all times local): 6 p.m. A man says he had two recent ...
Nov 02, 2016

South Africa watchdog report increases pressure on president
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma faced growing calls to resign on Wednesday after the release of a state report that found possible evidence of corruption at top levels of a governmen...
Nov 02, 2016
France moves over 1,600 child migrants out of Calais
CALAIS, France - French authorities bused all unaccompanied children - 1,616 of them - out of Calais’ sprawling migrant slum on Wednesday, taking them to special processing centres in one of the...
Nov 02, 2016