Category Archives: Canadian Press
Growing marijuana industry sparks new research around cannabis, scientists say
The budding marijuana industry is spurring new research around cannabis that will have long-term effects on a variety of fields, from farming to new medicine, as companies look for solid scientific da...
Oct 16, 2017
No injuries in Quebec train derailment
LAVAL, Que. - Nobody was hurt and there was little environmental damage after several empty cars from a derailed freight train plunged off a bridge near Montreal, a local mayor said Friday. Laval Mayo...
Oct 16, 2017
Taliban says freed Canadian hostage's allegations of rape and murder are false
A spokesman for the Taliban is denying the allegations of a freed Canadian hostage who says his wife was raped and his daughter killed by their abductors. Upon his return to Canada Friday, Joshua Boyl...
Oct 16, 2017
Ontario ticket wins Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - A single ticket sold in Ontario claimed Friday night’s $10 million Lotto Max jackpot. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Oct. 20 will again be approximately $10 million. The Ca...
Oct 16, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 13 --- MORNEAU TO ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO TAX PLAN: The Trudeau government is going to retool its controversial small business tax reform proposals. Finance ...
Oct 16, 2017
Winnipeg police officer charged after pedestrian dies in hit-and-run
Winnipeg’s police chief says off-duty officers have the same right as anyone else to socialize after work, sometimes with alcohol. But Chief Danny Smyth says like anyone else, if an officer has ...
Oct 16, 2017
Unethical uses of AI need scrutiny to maintain public support: pioneers
MONTREAL - Two artificial intelligence pioneers warn that unscrupulous or unethical uses of the technology risk undermining the public image of an area of research undergoing rapid change. Canadian de...
Oct 16, 2017
Correction to story about death of a Kamloops university executive
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Canadian Press erroneously reported on Tuesday that Thompson Rivers University had issued a statement on the hospitalization of Christopher Seguin, its vice-president of advanceme...
Oct 16, 2017
General Motors reaches tentative agreement at its Ontario CAMI plant
TORONTO - General Motors reached a tentative deal with the striking workers at its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., on Friday. Few details of the pact were provided by the company or Unifor, the union w...
Oct 16, 2017
Notley says unfair to assess Energy East on downstream environmental impact
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government is being unfair in the way it assesses pipeline projects, but her government will not go to court for now to try to make it right. ...
Oct 16, 2017