Category Archives: Canadian Press
Economic development help for hard-hit northern Manitoba towns
CHURCHILL, Man. - A federal promise of $4.6 million for economic development projects in northern Manitoba was received Friday as a welcome, but temporary, measure to help a regional economy that has ...
Sep 30, 2016
Flare founder bemoans demise of Canadian fashion magazine
TORONTO - Flare’s visionary founder says she’s sad to see the fashion publication disappear from newsstands, calling it a rare vehicle for Canadian women to see themselves reflected in a s...
Sep 30, 2016
Thunder Bay, Ont., police probing racist online comments allegedly made by cop
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., are investigating allegations that racist comments posted on a local newspaper’s Facebook page were made by members of the police service. They s...
Sep 30, 2016
California governor OKs sex crime bill tied to Stanford case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two sexual assault laws in response to national outrage over the six-month jail sentence given to a former Stanford University swimmer for a...
Sep 30, 2016
Prairie farmers expected to benefit from global warming by growing corn, soy
BANFF, Alta. - Farmers on the Canadian Prairies are “literally” the only agricultural winners on the planet as a result of global warming, according to an economist studying global food su...
Sep 30, 2016
Biyombo's departure after just one season leaves big void for Toronto Raptors
BURNABY, B.C. - Kyle Lowry says there were times last season when the Toronto Raptors wouldn’t worry about being half a step behind on defence. They weren’t being lazy, they just knew Bism...
Sep 30, 2016
Defence minister slams cadet letter referring to breasts as 'developing bits'
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A letter outlining the dress code for young people interested in joining a Newfoundland air cadets squadron is offensive and “completely unacceptable,” Canada̵...
Sep 30, 2016
Suspect arrested after missing Japanese ESL student found dead in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The mysterious disappearance of a Japanese woman studying English in Vancouver is now a police investigation into her death. Police announced Friday that the body of 30-year-old Natsumi Ko...
Sep 30, 2016
Shackles removed from hospitalized woman facing deportation: minister
HALIFAX - An ailing woman who is facing deportation to England has been freed from shackles that kept her restrained in her hospital bed following the intervention of two Nova Scotia cabinet ministers...
Sep 30, 2016
Man suspected of killing parents, then 17 neighbours in China
BEIJING - Police say a villager in southwest China killed his parents and then 17 neighbours in an attempt to cover up his crime, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. An investigation foun...
Sep 30, 2016