Category Archives: Canadian Press

The Latest: Clinton calls off plans to travel to West Coast
NEW YORK - The Latest on the 2016 race for president (all times EDT): 10:24 p.m. Hillary Clinton is calling off plans to visit the West Coast on Monday and Tuesday following a health episode at the 9-...
Sep 11, 2016
Turkey replaces 28 elected officials with appointees
ISTANBUL - Turkish police used water cannons and teargas to disperse protesters Sunday after Ankara announced it had replaced 28 elected municipal and district mayors in several predominantly Kurdish ...
Sep 11, 2016
Canada's Stanley, Lakatos race to pair of Paralympic silver medals on track
RIO DE JANEIRO - Liam Stanley was a promising runner, but an outstanding soccer player. And his goal was to get Canada’s para-soccer team to the Rio Paralympics. Track coach Bruce Deacon made hi...
Sep 11, 2016

Clinton recovering after health episode, cancels Calif. trip
NEW YORK - An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9-11 anniversary ceremony Sunday and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several...
Sep 11, 2016

Panel calls for major overhaul of UBC's approach to sexual assaults
VANCOUVER - An expert panel is calling for a sweeping transformation of the University of British Columbia’s approach to sexual assaults, after speaking with survivors and campus members who sai...
Sep 11, 2016
40 who died in Pennsylvania in 9-11 attack remembered
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - The 40 passengers and crew members of a plane that crashed in western Pennsylvania after it was hijacked during the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago have been honoured with a reading o...
Sep 11, 2016

US nuclear plant up for sale at fraction of cost
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. - After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation’s largest federal utility is preparing to sell the pro...
Sep 11, 2016
Prominent thinkers urge Turkey to end writers' 'witch hunt'
ISTANBUL - About 40 prominent academics and authors from around the world are urging Turkey’s government to end what they say is the persecution of the country’s own writers and professors...
Sep 11, 2016
Canada earns silver at women's baseball World Cup with 10-0 loss to Japan
GIJANG, Korea, Republic Of - Canada matched its best-ever result in an international tournament with a silver medal at the women’s baseball World Cup on Sunday. Ayami Sato pitched a complete gam...
Sep 11, 2016

Two of Canada's big five banks backing away from marijuana industry
TORONTO - Scotiabank and the Royal Bank of Canada say they aren’t providing accounts to companies associated with the marijuana industry, leaving some business owners scrambling to find alternat...
Sep 11, 2016