Category Archives: Canadian Press
Toronto's Nam Nguyen sixth in men's competition at Skate America
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Toronto’s Nam Nguyen produced two clean programs including Sunday’s free skate and took sixth spot in men’s competition to conclude Skate America, the first s...
Oct 23, 2016
Conservative leadership race: who's in, who's out, who's still thinking it over
OTTAWA - Quebec MP and former public safety minister Steven Blaney is the latest to join the Conservative leadership race after launching his campaign Sunday. Here is the list of who else is in, who i...
Oct 23, 2016
Storms hamper attempt to clean up, contain fuel spill off B.C. coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Officials say booms containing a fuel spill from a sunken tug off British Columbia’s central coast have been replaced, but clean up crews continue to face harsh weather as th...
Oct 23, 2016
Cam Talbot earns shutout as Oilers blank Jets at Heritage Classic
WINNIPEG - Three was a good number for Cam Talbot on Sunday. The Edmonton Oilers goaltender made his third appearance at an NHL outdoor game, but finally got to play in one and made the experience cou...
Oct 23, 2016
100M Canadians by 2100? Key advisers to Morneau striving for such a goal
OTTAWA - Imagine Canada with a population of 100 million - roughly triple its current size. For two of the most prominent voices inside the Trudeau government’s influential council of economic a...
Oct 23, 2016
Women in gender-parity cabinet reflect on first year as ministers
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed last year to bring gender parity - an equal number of men and women - to the federal cabinet, responding to a question about “why” with the...
Oct 23, 2016
'Room left to grow': Canada's first aboriginal justice minister one year in
OTTAWA - There is a gripping photograph of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau taken when newly elected Liberal MP Jody Wilson-Raybould was sworn in as justice minister. The two politicians stare into each ...
Oct 23, 2016
Former Habs coach and Senator Jacques Demers released from hospital
OTTAWA - Senator and former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers is back at home after going to hospital Saturday. His Senate office would only confirm that Demers, 72, was at home Sunday, but didn...
Oct 23, 2016
Protesters who refuse solid food take fight against Muskrat Falls to Ottawa
An Inuk artist protesting the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador says he’s lost more than eight kilograms after ten days of consuming nothing but water but is prepared to die for hi...
Oct 23, 2016
Authorities find no sign of braking by bus driver in crash
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Ana Car didn’t remember the sudden impact, only that she woke up among dead and injured passengers in a dark bus filled with screams of terror and agony. The retired facto...
Oct 23, 2016