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  • 'Try to save': Non-profits and food co-ops offer grocery deals, discounts

    March 31, 2024 - 5:00 AM

    Many Canadians these days are looking for ways to save money on their groceries. In some cities, non-profits and food co-ops are giving people alternative options as they look to change their shopping habits and cut down on their bills. Here's a look at what some organizations are doing:

  • 1 in 4 Canadians fear income won't cover basic needs: Salvation Army poll

    December 18, 2023 - 4:31 AM

    TORONTO - A new survey suggests one in four Canadians are extremely concerned about having enough income to cover their basic needs, with the highest degree of hardship being felt by single parents.

  • Vatican questions $17 million transfers to impact investing fund, moves to prevent similar

    May 31, 2023 - 7:15 AM

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its U.S. missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its endowment and donations into a new nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and currently manages, The Associated Press has learned.

  • U.S. borrows page from Canada for new Welcome Corps refugee resettlement program

    January 23, 2023 - 2:20 PM

    WASHINGTON - The State Department is setting up a new program aimed at giving ordinary Americans the chance to help resettle refugees in the United States — and it's borrowing a page from Canada's immigration playbook to do it.

  • Calif. group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants

    March 29, 2022 - 9:18 PM

    California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations has decided to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people regardless of lineage.

  • Calif. group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants

    March 29, 2022 - 8:01 PM

    California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people regardless of lineage.

  • Insurer agrees to $800M settlement in Boy Scouts bankruptcy

    December 13, 2021 - 3:01 PM

    DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case have reached a tentative settlement under which one of the organization’s largest insurers would contribute $800 million into a fund for victims of child sexual abuse.

  • Boy Scouts get conditional approval of $850M bankruptcy deal

    August 19, 2021 - 3:36 PM

    DOVER, Del. (AP) — A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a proposal by the Boy Scouts of America to enter into an agreement that includes an $850 million fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as youngsters by Scout leaders and others.

  • Oklahoma governor booted from Tulsa Race Massacre commission

    May 14, 2021 - 3:23 PM

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The commission formed to observe the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre announced Friday that it had booted Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from his seat on the panel a week after he signed a bill outlawing the teaching of some race and racism concepts in public schools.

  • Pressure mounts on corporations to denounce GOP voting bills

    April 03, 2021 - 9:59 AM

    ATLANTA - Liberal activists are stepping up calls for corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws, and businesses accustomed to cozy political relationships now find themselves in the middle of a growing partisan fight over voting rights.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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