Category Archives: Canadian Press

Miami's Wynwood cleared of Zika; focus shifts to Miami Beach
MIAMI - With health authorities declaring a win against Zika in Miami’s Wynwood arts district, their emphasis shifts to the remaining transmission zone on nearby Miami Beach, where residents hav...
Sep 19, 2016
Funds being raised, support offered for injured hockey player from Newfoundland
BISHOPS FALLS, N.L. - Atlantic Canadians are offering financial support and encouragement for a young hockey player from Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland, who suffered a serious head injury in a car...
Sep 19, 2016
Five stories in the news today, Sept. 19
Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- CANADA’S TATIANA MASLANY HONOURED WITH EMMY She’s known as one of the hardest working women in TV, and last night Tatiana Maslany...
Sep 19, 2016

Woman convicted in death of stepdaughter gets life with no parole for 16 years
TORONTO - An Ontario woman consumed by her religious beliefs not only turned a blind eye to the violence her husband inflicted on his daughter but encouraged the abuse that led to the girl’s dea...
Sep 19, 2016
A by-the-numbers look at foreign pensioners in Canada, and payments abroad
OTTAWA - British pensioners living in Canada are lobbying the Liberal government to make indexing their pensions to the cost of living a requirement for any future free trade deal with Britain - an ag...
Sep 19, 2016

British retirees in Canada push Liberals to fix decades-old pension fight
OTTAWA - Anne Puckridge has two medals, earned during her service to Britain in the Second World War. The 91-year-old jokes that she is still fighting - except now it is against the British government...
Sep 19, 2016
Lost in red tape: Ombudsman maps transition system for ill, injured troops
OTTAWA - The military ombudsman has, for the first time, literally mapped out the numerous hurdles which ill and injured soldiers are forced to jump as they leave the Canadian Forces and re-enter civi...
Sep 19, 2016

Grim news casts shadow over refugee conference attended by PM Trudeau
NEW YORK - The grim shadow of world events descended over a conference on refugees as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders gathered Monday to make new commitments to victims of a hist...
Sep 19, 2016
Search ongoing in Lake Superior for 3 missing boaters
CHASSELL, Mich. - Authorities are searching Lake Superior for three boaters, including a 9-year-old and his father, who didn’t return from a fishing trip. Family members called police when the t...
Sep 19, 2016
Hold your nose: Morphy's about to bloom
HANOVER, N.H. - A rare “corpse flower” is about to bloom at Dartmouth College. The titan arum named Morphy is 13 years old and hasn’t bloomed since 2011. Officials at Dartmouth’...
Sep 19, 2016