Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ottawa to spend $70 million on Atlantic health information service: premiers
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - The federal government will spend up to $70 million to create a new electronic health prescription service for Atlantic Canada, which will also give residents access to their pers...
Jul 10, 2018
Montreal suburb passes summer-long ban on leaf blowers after heated debate
BEACONSFIELD, Que. - Tensions erupted in a Montreal suburb after councillors voted to pass a contentious summer-long ban on leaf blowers. Protesters gathered with signs outside city hall in Beaconsfie...
Jul 10, 2018
Ronaldo leaving Real Madrid to join Italian club Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid to join Italian club Juventus in a move expected to benefit the Portugal forward’s tax return. Juventus said Tuesday it paid 112 million euros ($131.5 mi...
Jul 10, 2018
'Pothole Man' on a mission to protect drivers in rural Newfoundland
TWILLINGATE, N.L. - For years, drivers along Newfoundland’s Road to the Isles thought the orange circles around the highway’s notorious potholes were put there by the Department of Transpo...
Jul 10, 2018
Group says 78 women, girls, killed across Canada in last six months
OTTAWA - A research group is hoping to draw more attention to femicide - the killing of women and girls - by publicly disclosing the names of Canadian victims. The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Ju...
Jul 10, 2018
Bighill, Sinopoli, and Wilder named CFL top performers for Week 4
TORONTO - Winnipeg linebacker Adam Bighill, Ottawa receiver Brad Sinopoli and Toronto running back James Wilder Jr., are the top performers for Week 4 of the CFL season. Bighill registered six total t...
Jul 10, 2018
Parents of Humboldt Broncos player killed in crash sue truck driver, bus maker
REGINA - The family of one of the Humboldt Broncos players killed in a highway crash has filed a lawsuit alleging a semi-truck driver with inadequate training failed to stop at a flashing stop sign at...
Jul 10, 2018
South Africa charter plane crashes; 1 killed, 20 injured
PRETORIA, South Africa - A charter plane crashed outside South Africa’s capital on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring nearly 20 others, with four of them briefly trapped inside the wreckag...
Jul 10, 2018
Court date set for Toronto cops accused of eating pot-laced chocolate
TORONTO - A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for two Toronto police officers accused of eating a marijuana-laced chocolate bar they allegedly took during a raid at a pot shop. Const. Jamie Young an...
Jul 10, 2018
Only land link to Churchill, Man., may be sold and revived: rail company
CHURCHILL, Man. - The company that owns a broken rail line to Churchill in northern Manitoba says talks to sell the line and restore it are back on. Hudson Bay Railway says negotiations with a consort...
Jul 10, 2018