Category Archives: Canadian Press
Powerful quake spares lives, but strikes at Italy's identity
NORCIA, Italy - The third powerful earthquake to hit Italy in two months spared human life Sunday but struck at the nation’s identity, destroying a Benedictine cathedral, a medieval tower and ot...
Oct 30, 2016
New record label crucial infrastructure for Nunavut music: founder
IQALUIT, Nunavut - After two albums and successful tours as far afield as Australia, Nunavut-based musician Andrew Morrison felt he and his band the Jerry Cans had earned the right to be taken on thei...
Oct 30, 2016
Montreal professor known as 'The 'Gadfather' fights what he calls academic cowardice
MONTREAL - Gad Saad, better known as “The Gadfather” to his fans, regularly appears on highly popular U.S. talk shows and his YouTube channel has millions of views, yet the Montreal profes...
Oct 30, 2016
Trudeau says work is 'just beginning' on Canada-EU free trade deal
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revelled in a long-awaited moment Sunday - signing Canada’s free trade deal with the European Union, but not before recognizing the challenges ahead to b...
Oct 30, 2016
Emirati police find strange fruit covered in writing, nails
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Police in one of the sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates say they found and determined a strange fruit covered in writing and nails was not dangerous. Police in Sharja...
Oct 30, 2016
Conjugal visits increase public safety, help offenders reintegrate, experts say
VANCOUVER - Lee Chapelle has fond memories of spending afternoons with his wife in the mid-1990s, barbecuing in a small yard while his young children played in the grass and mimicked the cows’ m...
Oct 30, 2016
Adults shamed from speaking indigenous languages hold key to revival, survival
VICTORIA - There’s a generation of indigenous people across Canada who were once shamed for speaking their own language. Now, people who didn’t learn their mother tongue from their parents...
Oct 30, 2016
By The Numbers: The number of private family visits taking place in Canadian prisons
VANCOUVER - Canada has a long-standing program that allows eligible federal inmates to have private visits with family members. These typically take place in separate facilities within the penitentiar...
Oct 30, 2016
Powerful quake rattles Italy; no deaths immediately reported
ROME - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 on Sunday rocked the same area of central and southern Italy hit by quake in August and a pair of aftershocks last week, sending alread...
Oct 30, 2016
Philippines: China still guarding shoal, but Filipinos back
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine aerial surveillance showed Chinese coast guard ships were still guarding a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, but they did not harass and stop Filipinos from fishi...
Oct 29, 2016