Category Archives: Canadian Press
Four candidates vying to lead new Alberta party face off in first debate
CALGARY - The four men vying for the leadership of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party focused their attacks on Alberta’s NDP government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rather than e...
Sep 20, 2017
'Deeply sorry:' Calgary man who strangled wife, buried body in home gets 7 years
CALGARY - A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Allan Shyback will get credit for...
Sep 20, 2017
Utilities commission seeks more data on Site C before final recommendation
VANCOUVER - The BC Utilities Commission has released a preliminary report into the future of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam project in the province’s northeast. But the commission sai...
Sep 20, 2017
Fallen RCMP officer the 'consummate Mountie': Acting commissioner
MONCTON, N.B. - Hundreds of RCMP officers in red serge filed sombrely into a New Brunswick church to pay tribute to a Mountie killed last week when he stopped to help stranded motorists change a flat ...
Sep 20, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Tuesday’s Games MLB American League Toronto 5 Kansas City 2 Boston 1 Baltimore 0 (11 innings) Oakland 9 Detroit 8 Houston 3 Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Yankees 5 Minnesota 2 Cleveland 6 L.A. Angels...
Sep 19, 2017
Tuesday's Games
Tuesday’s Games MLB American League Toronto 5 Kansas City 2 Boston 1 Baltimore 0 (11 innings) Oakland 9 Detroit 8 Houston 3 Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Yankees 5 Minnesota 2 Cleveland 6 L.A. Angels...
Sep 19, 2017
Clinton mocks 'manspreading' Putin
NEW YORK - When Hillary Clinton took the guest’s seat on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” she was in a mood to put Russian President Vladimir Putin on the psychiatrist’s c...
Sep 19, 2017
Ex-Mountie who smuggled narwhal tusks to be sentenced
BANGOR, Maine - A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks across the border is due to be sentenced for money laundering. Prosecutors say Gregory Logan, of Sain...
Sep 19, 2017
Florida treasure hunter finds Winnipegger's championship ring after hurricane
WINNIPEG - A treasure-hunter who hit the beaches of Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma found something that a Winnipegger lost about four years ago - a championship football ring. Tom Shay say...
Sep 19, 2017
Important for new leader to have seat in the House of Commons: Mulcair
OTTAWA - Outgoing NDP leader Tom Mulcair says it is important for his successor to have a seat in the Commons - an issue playing out in the current battle to replace him. Ontario legislator Jagmeet Si...
Sep 19, 2017