Category Archives: Canadian Press
Chance the Rapper giving $1M to boost mental health services
CHICAGO - Chance the Rapper says he’s donating $1 million to help improve mental health services in Chicago. The Chicago native made the announcement Thursday during a summit for his non-profit ...
Oct 05, 2018
Kavanaugh bump? GOP fights for new energy as vote nears
NEW YORK - On the brink of a political gender war, President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is threatening to erode Democrats’ enthusiasm advantage as the fiery debate over his Supreme Co...
Oct 05, 2018
Indonesia considers making devastated areas mass graves
PALU, Indonesia - Search teams pulled bodies from obliterated neighbourhoods in the disaster-stricken Indonesian city of Palu on Saturday as more aid rolled in and the government said it was consideri...
Oct 05, 2018
Turkey says won't leave Syria until elections are held there
BEIRUT - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey won’t withdraw from zones it controls in Syria until its people hold an election. Erdogan made the comment in Istanbul on Thursday at ...
Oct 05, 2018
Melania Trump loses footing with elephant, but not with kids
NAIROBI, Kenya - Melania Trump briefly lost her footing when a baby elephant startled her with a sudden move, but the first lady was anything but out of step when children at an orphanage welcomed her...
Oct 05, 2018
Ben Affleck posts about substance abuse treatment
LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck says battling addiction is “a lifelong and difficult struggle.” The actor posted on Instagram Thursday that he has completed a 40-day stay at a treatment centre f...
Oct 05, 2018
Post prints empty column for Saudi writer missing in Turkey
ISTANBUL - The Washington Post printed a blank column in its newspaper Friday in solidarity with a Saudi contributor who went missing while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, raising conce...
Oct 05, 2018
Ticats veteran slotback Luke Tasker forever indebted to former coach Austin
Luke Tasker will forever be grateful to Kent Austin. Austin was Tasker’s head coach at Cornell, then gave him another lease on his pro football life by adding him to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats prac...
Oct 05, 2018
Mystery solved? Shipwreck may be oldest found in Lake Erie
TOLEDO, Ohio - Shipwreck hunters who spent eight days this summer unearthing and examining the remains of a schooner in Lake Erie in Ohio think it’s most likely a sailing ship that sank nearly t...
Oct 05, 2018
Trump slams Democrats for 'rage-fueled resistance'
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Seeking to boost Republican turnout in key Minnesota battlegrounds, President Donald Trump attacked Democrats Thursday night, arguing that their “rage-fueled resistance”...
Oct 05, 2018