Category Archives: Canadian Press
Progress made in modernizing NAFTA will make it easier to trade, says Freeland
MONTREAL - Progress made in negotiations to modernize NAFTA aren’t getting much attention but they will make it easier for companies to conduct trilateral trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrysti...
Jun 20, 2018
Death of man on Toronto subway tracks puts platform barriers in spotlight
Toronto’s subway operator has reiterated its long-standing desire to build platform barriers that could prevent deaths such as one this week where a 73-year-old man was killed after allegedly be...
Jun 20, 2018
Spy agency ended right-wing probe just months before Quebec mosque shooting
OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency ended its investigation of right-wing extremism 10 months before a gunman killed six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, a new report reveals. The federal spy watch...
Jun 20, 2018
CSIS risks privacy of innocent people despite scathing court ruling: watchdog
OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has failed to ensure it doesn’t illegally hold on to sensitive information about innocent people, a federal spy watchdog says. In a report mad...
Jun 20, 2018
Federal government and First Nations to approve B.C. fish farms: province
VICTORIA - Fish farmers in British Columbia have four years to show their open-net operations don’t harm wild salmon and to get approval from First Nations to locate them in their territories as...
Jun 20, 2018
Tycoon's son who wrote gory novel guilty in bloody slaying
LOS ANGELES - A Canadian real estate tycoon’s son who wrote a graphic novel that features gruesome killings was convicted in Southern California Wednesday of the torture and mutilation of a live...
Jun 20, 2018
Redblacks O-line counted on to protect Harris from aggressive Riders defence
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks enter their season opener in first place in the CFL East Division. To stay there, they will need to find a way to contain the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ aggressive d...
Jun 20, 2018
Toronto Wolfpack loan wingers Jonny Pownall, Ryan Burroughs to Barrow Raiders
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack have loaned wingers Jonny Pownall and Ryan Burroughs to the Barrow Raiders. But both players will be ineligible to play for the Raiders when eighth-place Barrrow (5-9-3)...
Jun 20, 2018
Police in B.C. search for family from Oregon after car found abandoned
DEASE LAKE, B.C. - Police in British Columbia say they are searching for a couple and their two young children after a car with Oregon licence plates was found near a highway in the community of Dease...
Jun 20, 2018
Morales hits two-run shot as Blue Jays edge Braves 5-4 in matinee
TORONTO - J.A. Happ has been the lone Toronto Blue Jays starter who has been consistently strong this season. With his team continuing to languish under the .500 mark, each solid performance is raisin...
Jun 20, 2018