Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada, U.S. women's hockey teams to clash in Winnipeg ahead of Winter Olympics
CALGARY - The Canadian women’s hockey team will host the archrival United States in Winnipeg on Dec. 5 in a pre-Olympic matchup. The game is one in a series of six the Canadians and Americans wi...
Sep 26, 2017

Penny Oleksiak, Kylie Masse headline Canadian swim team for Commonwealth Games
OTTAWA - World champion backstroker Kylie Masse and Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak will lead Canada’s swim team into the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Masse, of LaSalle, Ont., set a wor...
Sep 26, 2017
Information watchdog 'disappointed' with Liberal access-to-info bill
OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog says she is “generally very disappointed” with a Liberal bill that would revise the law intended to give Canadians access to federal files. Inform...
Sep 26, 2017
Boeing draws first blood as U.S. Commerce Department hits Bombardier hard
OTTAWA - Bombardier’s hopes for breaking into the U.S. commercial aviation market took a massive blow on Tuesday, as the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed a hefty 219 per cent duty on its CSe...
Sep 26, 2017

Design of new housing supplement critical to its success, CMHC head says
OTTAWA - Federal officials are working out the kinks in a government plan to tie housing assistance to the person who needs help, not the place where they are living. Benefits have traditionally been ...
Sep 26, 2017

Invictus Games helps a former medic live her life instead of just surviving it
When Elizabeth Newman was training for the Invictus Games, she found that preparing for the competition helped her adapt to the changes that have taken place in her life after being medically released...
Sep 26, 2017

Highlights of the updated 2017-18 Nova Scotia provincial budget
Highlights of the Nova Scotia budget re-introduced Tuesday: – Surplus of $21.3 million is projected on a spending program of about $10.5 billion, $4.6 million lower than the surplus in the budge...
Sep 26, 2017

Sailor's court martial on sex charge delayed after defence lawyer withdraws
HALIFAX - A court martial for a member of the Royal Canadian Navy accused of sexual assault and ill treatment of a subordinate has been delayed because his lawyer withdrew from the case due to “...
Sep 26, 2017
Screening scrapped in Victoria as group cancels fibbing filmmaker's contract
VICTORIA - Mounting protests against a filmmaker who planned to charge higher admission to white men attending the screening of his movie have led a Victoria theatre society to cancel its contract to ...
Sep 26, 2017
NEB warns Trans Mountain pipeline builder to stop installing anti-spawning mats
CALGARY - The National Energy Board is issuing a stern warning to the company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion for installing mats in streams to discourage fish from spawning where the p...
Sep 26, 2017