Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nebraska sets execution date for longest-serving inmate
LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska Supreme Court set an execution date Thursday for the state’s longest-serving inmate, a crucial step needed to carry out Nebraska’s first execution in 21 years....
Jul 5, 2018
Cross-Canada runner Dave Proctor offers up body for scientific study
CALGARY - The prospect of pie and a family reunion propelled Dave Proctor along the Trans-Canda Highway as he neared Calgary on his cross-country run. The 37-year-old from Okotoks, Alta., is attemptin...
Jul 5, 2018
Study finds Vancouver-area laundry microplastics are filtering into ocean
VANCOUVER - Microplastics from Metro Vancouver’s laundered clothes are ending up in water treatment plants and filtering into the ocean, says a study published in the science journal Marine Poll...
Jul 5, 2018
Budget surplus results in $68 checks for thousands in town
LANGHORNE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania township with more money than it anticipated from increased property tax collection has decided to give the dividends to residents. Middletown Township in Langhorne sen...
Jul 5, 2018
Senators assistant GM seeks dismissal of harassment charges
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The lawyer representing Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee tells The Associated Press he will enter a not guilty plea and file a motion to dismiss harassment charges d...
Jul 5, 2018
Poetry in motion: Brown has flirted with sprinting perfection more this season
OTTAWA - The perfect 100-metre race feels like poetry in motion to Aaron Brown, and 10 seconds can feel like a hundred. The 26-year-old from Toronto has flirted with perfection more times this season ...
Jul 5, 2018
Carbon price proceeds to go directly to Ontario residents: Trudeau
TORONTO - Ontario residents, and not the newly elected Progressive Conservative government, will receive the proceeds of a carbon price imposed on the province by the federal government, Prime Ministe...
Jul 5, 2018
PM 'confident' he did nothing inappropriate at B.C. music festival in 2000
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Thursday he “did not act inappropriately” towards a female reporter at a B.C. music festival 18 years ago - but he also acknowledged that th...
Jul 5, 2018
Scandal-plagued EPA Administrator Pruitt resigns
WASHINGTON - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease. Wi...
Jul 5, 2018
TTC peer support program helps workers who witness subway suicides
TORONTO - Kevin Freeman was driving a train into Toronto’s Bloor Station when a man dressed in black burst through the crowd and jump onto the tracks. It was 9:45 a.m. on June 26, 2008. “T...
Jul 5, 2018