Category Archives: Canadian Press
De Boer fired by impatient Palace after only 4 games
The impatience and short-term thinking in modern-day soccer was highlighted Monday when Frank de Boer was fired by Crystal Palace only four Premier League games into his task of changing the ingrained...
Sep 11, 2017
Canadians barred from Turks and Caicos flight allowed to return home
TORONTO - Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home. Hurricane Irma caused extensive flooding ...
Sep 11, 2017
Trudeau, cabinet plan second half of mandate, attend 9/11 forum
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are gathering in St. John’s, N.L., where they will look to the past before preparing for the months ahead and the second half of their mand...
Sep 11, 2017
US marks 9-11 anniversary with resolve, tears and hope
NEW YORK - Americans commemorated 9-11 on Monday with tear-streaked tributes, a presidential warning to terrorists and appeals from victims’ relatives for unity and hope 16 years after the deadl...
Sep 11, 2017
UN approves watered-down new sanctions against North Korea
The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea but not the toughest-ever measures sought by the Trump administration to ban all oil imports and freeze internatio...
Sep 11, 2017
Lengthy jury selection process begins at trial for Lac-Megantic accused
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Lawyers began the difficult task Monday of finding 14 jurors who are bilingual, impartial and without any personal connection to the 2013 rail disaster that killed 47 people in Lac-...
Sep 11, 2017
Cuba's decrepit buildings no match for Hurricane Irma
HAVANA - The historic but often decrepit buildings of Havana and other colonial Cuban cities couldn’t stand up to Hurricane Irma’s winds and rainfall, collapsing and killing seven people i...
Sep 11, 2017
Patient kills foreign Red Cross staffer in Afghanistan
KABUL - A physiotherapist working at the International Committee of the Red Cross’ rehabilitation centre was shot by a patient in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, a statement release...
Sep 11, 2017
Hundreds march in Romania to honour Holocaust survivor Wiesel
SIGHETU MARMATIEI, Romania - Hundreds of people have marched in memory of the late Elie Wiesel in a northern Romanian town where thousands of Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. Romanians, Jews an...
Sep 11, 2017
Taiwan prepares for typhoon as hurricane batters US
TAIPEI, Taiwan - As the United States grapples with Hurricane Irma, Taiwan was preparing Monday for an incoming typhoon with a range of alerts, cancellations and evacuations. Typhoon Talim is due to m...
Sep 11, 2017