Category Archives: Canadian Press
NHLPA head: 'Players made enormous concessions to the owners in the last two negotiations'
TORONTO - Sitting in a boardroom at the NHL Players’ Association’s sleek 12th-floor downtown office, a relaxed Donald Fehr doesn’t seem like a man getting ready for a fight. But the ...
Sep 28, 2018
Calgary newspaper columnist's take on Kavanaugh nomination triggers backlash
CALGARY - A Calgary Herald newspaper column on sexual misconduct accusations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh has prompted two women on Calgary city council to shun interview...
Sep 28, 2018
India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate
NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Friday lifted a temple’s ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender. The historic Sabarimala tem...
Sep 28, 2018
Thousands of travellers affected in Europe by Ryanair strike
MADRID - Thousands of travellers in Europe saw their plans disrupted Friday after airline Ryanair cancelled more than 200 flights because of strikes by cabin crew in Spain, Belgium, Holland, Portugal,...
Sep 28, 2018
Superman to The Fonz: Vintage lunchbox collection on sale
CINCINNATI - Look, up on the shelf! It’s Superman. There’s the king of the wild frontier himself, Davy Crockett. And over in that case is Davy Crockett again, except this time he’s D...
Sep 28, 2018
Accuser blasts pope silence, 'slander' over coverup claims
VATICAN CITY - The former Vatican ambassador who accused three popes and their advisers of covering up for a disgraced American ex-cardinal has challenged the Vatican to say what it knows about the sc...
Sep 28, 2018
'Look at me': Flake shifts after pair rips him on Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON - Moments after pivotal Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Arizona Republican was confronted with the consequences. Two tearful wo...
Sep 28, 2018
Kavanaugh wrongly claims he could drink legally in Md.
BOSTON - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has repeatedly said that he was legally allowed to consume beer as a prep school senior in Maryland. In fact, he was never legal in high school because t...
Sep 28, 2018
Trump urges Senate to vote after Kavanaugh's fierce defence
WASHINGTON - Glued to high-stakes testimony on his Supreme Court nominee, President Donald Trump and his allies were shaken by Christine Blasey Ford’s emotional appearance on Capitol Hill. But t...
Sep 28, 2018
1 hearing, 2 witnesses, vastly different takeaways
It was one hearing, with just two witnesses. But, in an era of political polarization and yawning cultural divides, Americans came away having heard very different things. Millions of men and women li...
Sep 28, 2018