Category Archives: Canada

Justin Trudeau debuts on Marvel cover alongside Canadian superheroes, Iron Man
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially entered the Marvel universe — and the boxing ring — as a newly minted comic cover star. Trudeau appears on the variant cov...
Aug 31, 2016

US evaluating Taliban video of captive couple in Afghanistan
KABUL — The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill th...
Aug 31, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Aug. 31
Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press ——— CANADA POST, CUPW REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative sett...
Aug 31, 2016
Canadian National Exhibition shuts down early due to fights, overcrowding
TORONTO — The Canadian National Exhibition shut down a few hours earlier than planned on Tuesday night due to overcrowding and fighting inside the fairgrounds. The CNE said on its website that i...
Aug 30, 2016

Military says progress made on sexual misconduct, but admits long way to go
OTTAWA — The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admi...
Aug 30, 2016
NDP handily wins Nova Scotia byelection race in Halifax party stronghold
HALIFAX — The provincial NDP in Nova Scotia has handily won a byelection in one of its Halifax strongholds in what one pollster says is an early test of the pa...
Aug 30, 2016
Northern Saskatchewan mine worker recovering in hospital after wolf attack
SASKATOON — A 26-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in northern Saskatchewan by a lone wolf. The man, a shift worker at Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine...
Aug 30, 2016
Canada Post, union reach tentative deal; averts possible job action this week
OTTAWA — Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of job action this week at the postal service. The tentative agreem...
Aug 30, 2016

'Lot of questions:' Free DNA tests offered after Manitoba men switched at birth
NORWAY HOUSE, Man. — When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his bra...
Aug 30, 2016

Canada Post, postal union avert job action, reach tentative deals
OTTAWA — Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreements, averting the prospect of a labour dispute that ha...
Aug 30, 2016