Category Archives: Canadian Press
WestJet reviewing baggage policy after customer calls it discriminatory
TORONTO - WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries. The airline currently has a policy that prevents ...
Jul 4, 2018
US Supreme Court Justice receives lifetime award in Israel
JERUSALEM - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a lifetime achievement award Wednesday from a prominent Jewish organization in Israel. Ginsburg cited Holocaust diarist Anne Frank a...
Jul 4, 2018
Former Winnipeg ballet students allege intimate photos sold by photographer
TORONTO - A judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and a photographer who is alleged to have taken intimate photos of students. Lawyer Margaret Wadde...
Jul 4, 2018
Conservative leader rejected caucus calls to kick Maxime Bernier from caucus
OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says he wanted Andrew Scheer to kick the openly defiant Maxime Bernier out of the federal caucus last month, but the Tory leader refused, insisting that his outspoken former...
Jul 4, 2018
American border patrol agents stopping and boarding Canadian vessels: spokesman
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - A little-known cross-border dispute that has simmered between Canada and the United States since the late 1700s is now approaching the boiling point. In the past two weeks, at leas...
Jul 4, 2018
Ontario cancelling cap and trade akin to pulling out of climate framework: feds
OTTAWA - The federal government is interpreting Ontario’s cancellation of its cap-and-trade program as equivalent to withdrawing from Ottawa’s national climate change framework - and is re...
Jul 4, 2018
Sentencing hearing scheduled for Winnipeg man convicted of sending letter bombs
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man convicted of sending letter bombs to his ex-wife and two lawyers will have a sentencing hearing Oct. 3. Guido Amsel appeared briefly in Winnipeg court and says he has once ag...
Jul 4, 2018
Prices and homes listed up, sales down in Metro Vancouver real estate market
VANCOUVER - The supply of homes in Metro Vancouver’s real estate market hit a three-year high as sales dipped below historical averages last month. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver rep...
Jul 4, 2018
WestJet reviewing baggage policy after customer calls it discriminatory
TORONTO - WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries. At issue is an airline policy that prevents trave...
Jul 4, 2018
'Very big shock:' Nunavut man killed by polar bear while protecting his children
ARVIAT, Nunavut - A Nunavut man died this week while protecting his children from a rare polar bear attack. RCMP say Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on an island about 10 kilometres from the hamlet of Arviat, ...
Jul 4, 2018