Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada vs Boeing: How the fight with aerospace giant began, on Pennsylvania Ave.
WASHINGTON - An awkward encounter above Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue last spring provided early evidence of a rift between the Canadian government and the world’s largest aerospace com...
Sep 29, 2017
Don Cherry calls media coverage of kneeling protests hypocritical
Hockey commentator Don Cherry believes media coverage of athletes kneeling during the playing of national anthems has been hypocritical. The popular TV personality best known for his Coach’s Cor...
Sep 29, 2017
NDP raffle off chance to live like Premier Brian Pallister in Costa Rica
WINNIPEG - Manitoba New Democrats are poking fun at Conservative Premier Brian Pallister’s much-publicized vacation home in Costa Rica by raffling off a vacation to the country as part of a part...
Sep 29, 2017
New cultural road map could change landscape, but where it leads still unclear
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Melanie Joly unveiled Thursday what she billed as a road map for the future of Canada’s creative industries, but precisely where on the cultural landscape it will end ...
Sep 29, 2017
Ship allegedly broke St. Lawrence speed limit imposed to protect endangered whales
OTTAWA - Transport Canada says a ship has been fined for allegedly exceeding a speed limit set to protect endangered whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Due to the increased presence of North Atlantic...
Sep 29, 2017
Conservation group mourns death of female Alberta grizzly bear in B.C.
EDMONTON - Conservationists are mourning the death of a female grizzly bear that had been moved from a popular area west of Calgary this summer to a remote park in northwest Alberta. Stephen Legault o...
Sep 29, 2017
Donald Trump's new ambassador to Canada: I'm a 'listener,' Knight Craft says
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s new ambassador to Canada says she intends to represent the president’s agenda with a style that appears, at first glance, to be gentler than that of her unapolo...
Sep 29, 2017
Montreal mayoral candidate says no public cash for future major league baseball
MONTREAL - The North American-wide debate over who should pay for professional sports stadiums entered Montreal’s mayoral race on Wednesday. Valerie Plante, the leading candidate vying to replac...
Sep 29, 2017
Rogers buys naming rights to Halifax plaza on site of former public street
Halifax Mayor Mike Savage says he’s “comfortable” a city block sold to a developer will now carry the name of a telecommunications company. Rogers Communications announced Wednesday ...
Sep 29, 2017
Toronto transit apologizes for naming emergency simulation after bombing campaign
Toronto’s transit organization has apologized after inadvertently naming an upcoming emergency exercise after a notorious bombing campaign in the Vietnam War. The Toronto Transit Commission had ...
Sep 29, 2017