Category Archives: Canadian Press
Tracklist: 'The Stranger' and 'Swing Set' among new songs on Gord Downie solo album
TORONTO - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced Friday he is releasing a new solo album called “Secret Path.” Inspired by the harrowing story of a 12-year-old First Nations boy who...
Sep 09, 2016
New Brunswick's Irving Oil finalizes acquisition of Irish refinery
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Irving Oil says it has finalized its acquisition of the Whitegate refinery near Cork, Ireland. Irving joined with the Houston-based energy manufacturing and logistics company, Phill...
Sep 09, 2016
FIFA opens bribery case against Sepp Blatter, 2 others
GENEVA - Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is now facing a bribery case, and one of his former vice-presidents was fined more than $1 million in a separate investigation into kickbacks. The FIFA ethi...
Sep 09, 2016
Full of baloney: Leitch's claim that values testing immigrants would be simple
OTTAWA - “Right now we screen people for security reasons. We ask individuals what their income is. So why would we not ask some simple questions with regards to whether you believe in the equal...
Sep 09, 2016

Gord Downie to release 'very haunting' album inspired by residential schools
TORONTO - A First Nations leader says she is profoundly grateful after a trip to northern Ontario with Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie to celebrate his “very haunting” new project that...
Sep 09, 2016

Correction: Norway-Facebook-Napalm Girl story
COPENHAGEN - In a Sept. 9 story about Facebook allowing postings of a 1972 photo of a naked, screaming girl after a napalm attack in Vietnam, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the social ...
Sep 09, 2016
People gather near water to thank searchers looking for two missing fishermen
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The sound of car horns rang out over part of St. John’s harbour as residents of a small, grief-stricken community offered their thanks to crews who for days searched wat...
Sep 09, 2016

MasterCard faces $18.6 billion UK lawsuit over fees
LONDON - MasterCard is being sued for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion) on behalf of British consumers for allegedly charging excessive fees on millions of transactions over a 16-year period. The suit...
Sep 09, 2016
Prosecutor: Failed Paris car bomb plotted by IS-guided women
PARIS - A failed car bombing in the heart of Paris was hatched by a group of French women, including one once engaged to men who had already killed in the name of the Islamic State group, France’...
Sep 09, 2016

Passenger train derails in Spain, killing 4 and injuring 48
LISBON, Portugal - A passenger train derailed Friday in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, killing at least four people, including an American tourist, and injuring 48 others who were taken to...
Sep 09, 2016