Category Archives: Canadian Press
Blue Jays fans remain optimistic after team wins to avoid sweep by Indians
Toronto Blue Jays fans remain cautiously optimistic after the team kept its playoff run alive in a do-or-die game Tuesday. Die-hard fan Mike Calderon says the Blue Jays can still win the series after ...
Oct 18, 2016

Blue Jays stave off playoff elimination with 5-1 ALCS win over Cleveland
TORONTO - Josh Donaldson signalled his intentions early Tuesday. The Blue Jays MVP third baseman spoke from his heart during a team meeting prior to a do-or-die Game 4 against the Cleveland Indians in...
Oct 18, 2016
Provincial health spending hasn't grown as fast as federal contribution
OTTAWA - Provincial ministers insist they can’t possibly live with anything less than a six per cent annual increase in federal health transfer payments, without having to slash billions from th...
Oct 18, 2016
Newspaper office being sold, set to become doughnut factory
TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey newspaper’s headquarters may soon become a doughnut factory. The Trentonian newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/2eOBHoF ) its Trenton headquarters is being sold to a co...
Oct 18, 2016
Minnesota couple celebrates wedding by posing with puppies
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. - A Minnesota couple celebrated their wedding day by posing with puppies. Kathryn and Brad Ziemer of Maple Grove wanted to highlight the work of Secondhand Hounds, a non-profit that...
Oct 18, 2016
Judge recommends no injunction in transgender lawsuit
CHICAGO - A federal magistrate recommended Tuesday that a district judge deny a group of parents’ request for an injunction to bar a suburban Chicago transgender high school student from the sch...
Oct 18, 2016

Prosecutors: Cosby used fame and fortune to hide his crimes
PHILADELPHIA - Suburban prosecutors on Tuesday accused Bill Cosby’s “cadre of high-priced lawyers” of stretching the truth as they try again to get a sexual-assault case against him ...
Oct 18, 2016
Police: Bandit with taste for fancy cookies, espresso nabbed
STAMFORD, Conn. - Police say a bandit with a taste for espresso and fancy cookies has been nabbed because he asked an officer for directions to a Connecticut pastry shop. Stamford police Lt. Thomas Ba...
Oct 18, 2016
Fan angered at Subban trade to donate $250,000 to defenceman's charity
MONTREAL - A man who took put a full-page ad in a Montreal newspaper to express his anger over the P.K. Subban trade is making a big donation to the popular defenceman’s charity. The Montreal Ch...
Oct 18, 2016

The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Oct. 18 ____ CANADA TRADE ENVOY HOPEFUL ABOUT CETA: Canada’s European trade envoy says he’s hopeful a landmark trade agreement with the European ...
Oct 18, 2016