Category Archives: Canadian Press
Calgary Flames getting to know new goalies again in training camp
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames will spend training camp adjusting to new goaltenders for a second year in a row. Defenceman Mike Stone is familiar with one from their days as Arizona Coyotes teammates. ...
Sep 14, 2017
Carter recounts Canadian experience in support of single-payer health system
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says he supports a single-payer health-care system - a view that was possibly reinforced by his hospital experience after he collapsed in Canada earlier this year. C...
Sep 14, 2017
US wildfire costs hit record $2.3 billion; season isn't over
DENVER - The U.S. government says it has already spent a record $2.3 billion fighting wildfires this year, and 64 major fires are still burning in 10 states. The Forest Service, the nation’s pri...
Sep 14, 2017
Program in the works to teach First Nation members with low literacy find jobs
CALGARY - Vinnie Van Overdyk understands what it’s like to start life without proper education. Born on the Fairford First Nation in Manitoba, Van Overdyk said it was a long road to reach where ...
Sep 14, 2017
Acadian church organist named 42nd lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward Island
CHARLOTTETOWN - An Acadian church organist will become Prince Edward Island’s next lieutenant-governor. Antoinette Perry, a music and French teacher at Tignish Elementary School for more than th...
Sep 14, 2017
Non-Aboriginal fishermen protest Indigenous lobster fishery in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - Tension is growing between lobster fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia over the Indigenous ceremonial and food fisheries. As a series of peaceful protests got underway Thursday, the presid...
Sep 14, 2017
B.C. man who feared he'd harm again if freed from prison pleads guilty to murder
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who told his parole board hearing that he feared harming someone if he was released from prison has now pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of a British Columbia t...
Sep 14, 2017
Oilers begin camp with questions on who will play with McDavid, Draisaitl
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers opened training camp Thursday with franchise forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl locked up to long-term contracts - but with questions on who will play alongside ...
Sep 14, 2017
Jewish group disappointed Montreal imams accused of hate speech won't be charged
MONTREAL - Two Islamic preachers accused of giving anti-Semitic sermons in 2014 won’t face charges, a spokesman for Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Jean-Pascal Bouc...
Sep 14, 2017
Flames put Calgary on map but Ottawa staying out of arena fight: sport minister
CALGARY - Canada’s minister of sport has fond memories of when the Calgary Flames relocated to the city from Atlanta in 1980. “I remember doing a project on the Calgary Flames coming to Ca...
Sep 14, 2017