The Canadian Press The cookbook “Homegrown” features recipes highlighting Canada’s diverse agriculture from coast to coast. Author Mairlyn Smith, who compiled 160 recipes submitted by professional home economists and students, also includes plenty of tips on how to maximize Canadian products in home cooking. Home economists are also in the […]
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By Ross Marowits The Canadian Press MONTREAL Bombardier may be struggling to sell its CSeries planes because of the high level of technology in the new narrowbody aircraft, the head of Delta Air Lines said Tuesday. “It’s highly engineered, which I think has been some of the challenges they’ve faced […]
By Rachel D’Oro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska Skygazers from around the country caught a flight from Alaska to Hawaii on Tuesday for prime viewing of a total solar eclipse that will unfold over parts of Indonesia and the Indian and Pacific oceans. A dozen eclipse enthusiasts were among the […]
By Donna Gordon Blankinship The Associated Press KENT, Wash. Private space travel company Blue Origin expects its first test flights with people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday during a tour of the venture’s research and development site outside Seattle. And Bezos said thousands of people have expressed […]
The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Federal prosecutors in Alabama say a former armoured transportation company worker has agreed to plead guilty to stealing nearly $200,000, all in quarters. The U.S. attorney’s office in Birmingham says 49-year-old Stephen Lancaster Dennis of Harpersville agreed to plead guilty to theft. A statement released […]
By Lolita C. Baldor And Josh Lederman The Associated Press WASHINGTON U.S. airstrikes bombarded an al-Shabab training camp in Somalia Saturday, killing more than 150 militant fighters who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel, the Pentagon said Monday. Multiple drones and manned aircraft […]
By Matthew Lee And Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON Can Donald Trump really make good on his promise to build a wall along the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometre) U.S.-Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration? What’s more, can he make Mexico pay for it? Sure, he can build it, but it’s […]
By Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press PHOENIX A jury verdict against two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah for discriminating against nonbelievers now puts the future of the communities in the hands of a judge who will have to remedy the sweeping civil rights violations. Federal authorities haven’t specified the […]
By Maeva Bambuck The Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria Thomas Webber stoops to check his car for bombs every morning before heading out, but the 71-year-old American has no plans to leave Damascus, a city he has called home for more than four decades. He is perhaps the last American not […]
The Associated Press DEBARY, Fla. The mayor of a central Florida city is planning to visit Cuba and return home on a makeshift raft so he can better understand what Cuban migrants go through when crossing the Florida Straits. DeBary Mayor Clint Johnson tells the Daytona Beach News-Journal (bit.ly/1QDSk1C) he […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANBERRA, Australia The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly daily missions over the South China Sea despite a buildup of Chinese surface-to-air missiles and fighter jets in the contested region, with both nations’ militaries in discussions to avoid any “miscalculation,” a top U.S. […]
By Tami Abdollah The Associated Press WASHINGTON Calling a New York judge’s ruling “an unprecedented limitation” on judicial authority, the Justice Department has asked a Brooklyn federal court to reverse a decision that said Apple Inc. wasn’t required to pry open a locked iPhone. The government’s 45-page brief comes a […]
