The Canadian PressKelly Geraldine Malone WINNIPEG–An exhaustive search through Manitoba’s immense and unforgiving north has yielded no sign of two British Columbia murder suspects, so police say they are scaling back their manhunt in the area. “I think we’ve done everything we can and pulled out all the stops,” RCMP […]
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The Canadian PressKelly Geraldine Malone WINNIPEG–Helicopters and a specialized military aircraft scoured from the air while armed police took to the ground over northern Manitoba in a hunt for two suspects of murders in British Columbia. Some advocates say it’s a stark contrast to resources applied to searches for missing […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY–TC Energy Corp. says it is selling two Ontario natural gas-fired power plants and a 50 percent interest in a third to a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) for about $2.87 billion. The deal through its wholly owned subsidiary, TransCanada Energy Ltd., includes the 683-megawatt […]
The Canadian PressAleksandra Sagan Shoppers at Sobeys Inc. grocery stores will soon need to bring their own totes or lug their purchases home in paper bags as the chain moves to phase out plastic bags by February 2020. Canadians go through hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags at grocery […]
The Associated PressMonika Scislowska WARSAW, Poland–Maria Mostowska was a young pediatric nurse when the Warsaw Rising against the Nazi Germans occupying Poland broke out on Aug. 1, 1944. Seventy-five years on, she still vividly remembers how German troops put her against a wall and aimed a machine-gun. She recalled how […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service said four bears were euthanized following two separate incidents, one of which involved the arrest of three people over allegations they tried to obstruct the work of their officers. Insp. Murray Smith said two men and a woman in the Metro Vancouver […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian farmer who found an orthopedic plate inside a crocodile’s stomach said on Thursday he had been told the surgical device was from a human and had been contacted by relatives of missing persons anxious for clues. Koorana Crocodile Farm […]
By Monika Scislowska The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Maria Mostowska was a young pediatric nurse when the Warsaw Rising against the Nazi Germans occupying Poland broke out on Aug. 1, 1944. Seventy-five years on, she still vividly remembers how German troops put her against a wall and aimed a […]
The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Officials in an Arizona county hope to use a drone to make it easier to get vote tallies from tribal land deep within the Grand Canyon during next year’s election. Voting machines on the Havasupai reservation have sent tallies electronically in recent years. But […]
By Dan Healing The Canadian Press CALGARY — Three of Canada’s biggest oilsands producers are going directly to voters today to ask them to “influence the outcome” of big decisions concerning the oil and gas sector as a fall federal election looms. In full-page ads in about 30 English and […]
By Anne D’Innocenzio The Associated Press NEW YORK — It used to be considered the retailer’s crown jewel a large format store on a swank corridor that showed off the best of what a brand had to offer. But now the so-called flagship store is disappearing from high-profile shopping thoroughfares […]
Sam Odrowski Local farmer Delton Martin spoke about some of the pests, such as cereal army worms, that affect his fields after attendees of the Emo Agricultural Research Station (EARS) open house viewed their hops project on Thursday. The hops project is now in its third year and was expanded […]
