Category Archives: Canadian Press

'She's our child:' Family's tearful plea for help to find missing Manitoba woman
WINNIPEG - The parents of a missing woman from northern Manitoba are begging for help to find their daughter who has disappeared without a trace. Christine Wood, who is 21, was wit...
Sep 06, 2016

Conservative leadership candidate says test about unified Canadian identity
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch says her proposal to vet newcomers for anti-Canadian values has everything to do with promoting tolerance and respect - and nothing to do ...
Sep 06, 2016

Montreal taxi drivers planning to sue city for the right to wear black jeans
MONTREAL - A group of more than 100 Montreal taxi drivers announced Tuesday it will sue the city over the right to wear black jeans on the job. Cabbies say they will file an i...
Sep 06, 2016

Expectations high for proposed national housing strategy, CMHC says
OTTAWA - The Crown corporation overseeing work on a national housing strategy is signalling that those interested in the plan should temper their expectations about the final outcome. Housin...
Sep 06, 2016

Olympic medallist Penny Oleksiak returns to normal life at Toronto high school
TORONTO - Penny Oleksiak is kind of a big deal at her high school. The star swimmer, who won four medals at the Rio Olympics, returned to class on Tuesday as she enters grade 11, but her recently foun...
Sep 06, 2016
Bombardier cuts deliveries of CSeries plane by more than half in latest setback
MONTREAL - Bombardier is slashing deliveries of its new CSeries plane by more than half this year because of delayed engine deliveries from Pratt & Whitney, marking another setback for the jet. Th...
Sep 06, 2016
Second suspect arrested in Montreal bank robbery facing 15 charges
MONTREAL - The 45-year-old man arrested for allegedly robbing a bank in Montreal last week was arraigned on 15 counts Tuesday. The charges against Alain Sainte-Marie incl...
Sep 06, 2016

Survivors of Ontario's 'training schools' say their suffering is being ignored
CLARINGTON, Ont. - Survivors of a shadowy chapter in the history of Canada’s prison system say the legacy of the alleged abuse they endured as children is being ignored, if not erased. They...
Sep 06, 2016
B.C.'s health-care shortcomings violate patients' constitutional rights: lawyers
VANCOUVER - British Columbia shouldn’t be allowed to bar patients from taking action privately to meet their own medical needs if the government is failing them in the public health-care sy...
Sep 06, 2016
No evidence to warrant funding transfer from community to local TV, says group
OTTAWA - Canada’s community TV stations want their money back. The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations has asked the country’s broadcast regulator to recon...
Sep 06, 2016