Category Archives: Canadian Press

Sinking of tug off B.C. coast prompts disaster-response rethink: minister
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A sunken tug and the subsequent diesel spill on British Columbia’s central coast is prompting a rethink to emergency response that could allow those closest to the disaster t...
Oct 24, 2016

Box Office Top 20: 'Madea' tops charts, 'Moonlight' shines
LOS ANGELES - “Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween” outmuscled the Tom Cruise vehicle “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” at the box office this weekend. Perry’s film ne...
Oct 24, 2016
Figuring out actual benefits of federal spending could take years: Poloz
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada governor says it could take years of sifting through data before economists will know the actual impact of today’s federal spending measures aimed at boosting the wea...
Oct 24, 2016
Goaltender Shannon Szabados released by SPHL's Rivermen
PEORIA, Ill. - Goaltender Shannon Szabados has been released by the Peoria Rivermen after two games with the Southern Professional Hockey League team. The team announced that Szabados, who helped Cana...
Oct 24, 2016
Clinton, Warren: Campaign partners eying complicated future
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Joining forces in the presidential campaign’s final stretch, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren pounded Donald Trump on Monday for disrespecting women and denigrating U...
Oct 24, 2016

In emails, Clinton campaign measures diversity among staff
WASHINGTON - Senior staff members on Hillary Clinton’s nascent campaign were conscious about diversity in the top ranks two months before the Democratic presidential candidate formally announced...
Oct 24, 2016

Man convicted of sex crimes back in race for Saskatoon Catholic school board
SASKATOON - A man convicted of sex crimes 35 years ago is back in the race for Saskatoon’s Catholic school board. Denis Robert Hall had withdrawn from the campaign last week after reports surfac...
Oct 24, 2016
'The gun just went off:' Documents describe deadly Saskatchewan farm shooting
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The afternoon Colten Boushie was killed, police say Gerald Stanley was at home with his son Sheldon when the two heard an SUV drive into his Saskatchewan farmyard. They told ...
Oct 24, 2016

Grade 8 student tells federal minister he teaches indigenous language course
VICTORIA - A Grade 8 student stunned a gathering of national aboriginal leaders and the federal indigenous affairs minister Monday by saying he volunteered to become his school’s indigenous lang...
Oct 24, 2016
Libs to bring in Yazidi refugees fleeing ISIL within 120 days: McCallum
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months. He says the Liberals will support a Conservat...
Oct 24, 2016