Category Archives: Canadian Press
Statcan sets plan to keep consumer price index from slipping into irrelevancy
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada officials were warned late last year that one of the country’s most important economic indicators was at risk of losing its relevance and accuracy. The red flag raised...
Sep 22, 2016
GOP-led House panel finds former Clinton aide in contempt
WASHINGTON - A Republican-led House committee voted on Thursday to hold in contempt of Congress a former State Department employee who helped set up Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonR...
Sep 22, 2016

Oilers star McDavid says young North American team has turned some heads
TORONTO - Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews may never again line up together wearing the same colours, but if head coach Todd McLellan has his way the concept of Team North America will live on at th...
Sep 22, 2016
The Latest: Police don't plan to remove peaceful protesters
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man (all times local): 12:30 a.m. Charlotte police say they don’t plan to forcibl...
Sep 22, 2016

US home sales fell in August as inventories plummet
WASHINGTON - Americans retreated from home-buying in August, as a worsening inventory shortage appears to be hurting sales and pushing prices higher. Housing has been a bright spot amid weak economic ...
Sep 22, 2016

UK quiz show champ arrested on suspicion of Amsterdam murder
LONDON - A quiz-show champion who appeared on the long-running BBC show “Eggheads” has been arrested over an alleged murder, after writing in a memoir that he might have killed a man in Am...
Sep 22, 2016
Bomb threat shuts down Nunavut schools temporarily; will reopen when safe
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say a bomb threat that caused evacuations at schools in three regions of the territory was a hoax. Mounties say all elementary schools, high schools and colleges have b...
Sep 22, 2016
Shell weighs options of two kilometres of dropped pipe near abandoned wellhead
HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes - each weighing at least 20 tonnes ...
Sep 22, 2016

Ex-con charged with killing 4 at family home in Detroit area
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - A Detroit-area man who served 16 years in prison for killing his first wife was charged Thursday with killing his two children and two stepchildren, and torturing his wife. P...
Sep 22, 2016

Maryam Monsef, Canada's first Afghan cabinet minister, says she was born in Iran
OTTAWA - A longtime refugee advocate says stories such as that of Liberal MP Maryam Monsef are not uncommon as families fleeing war and violence reconstruct their past in a new land. Monsef, widely to...
Sep 22, 2016