Category Archives: Canadian Press
Feds will make marijuana legal in Canada on Oct. 17, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Canadians will have to wait until Oct. 17 - one month longer than expected - before they’ll be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Jun 20, 2018
Predators' Watson charged with domestic assault
Nashville Predators forward Austin Watson was arrested on a charge of domestic assault involving his girlfriend over the weekend. Franklin Police Lt. Charles Warner said Wednesday that Watson was arre...
Jun 20, 2018
New Brunswick still not getting bilingualism right, languages commissioner says
FREDERICTON - The official languages commissioner in New Brunswick - Canada’s only officially bilingual province - says the government still isn’t getting it right. Katherine d’Entre...
Jun 20, 2018
Palace says UK's Prince Louis to be christened July 9
LONDON - Britain’s royal palace says Prince Louis will be christened July 9 by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. The third son of Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge was ...
Jun 20, 2018
No easy path: Complex mass migration, politics reshape globe
PARIS - Lined up before dawn, dozens of migrants outside a government office in Italy jostled to be one of the handful allowed inside to request asylum Wednesday. The journeys that brought them to Rom...
Jun 20, 2018
Detainees held without charges decry Emiratis' sexual abuses
CAIRO - The 15 officers who arrived at the prison in southern Yemen hid their faces behind headdresses, but their accents were clearly foreign - from the United Arab Emirates. They lined up the detain...
Jun 20, 2018
No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children
MCALLEN, Texas - Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border since the implementation of a ze...
Jun 20, 2018
House struggles to unite behind bills to stem border crisis
WASHINGTON - Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing ahead with votes on rival House GOP immigration bills, but neither appears to have enough support for passage, prompting President Donald Trump to take execut...
Jun 20, 2018
Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria ripped away part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado’s home in the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months later, she is still relying on a blue ...
Jun 20, 2018
Maddow breaks down reading AP story on 'tender age' shelters
NEW YORK - MSNBC political commentator Rachel Maddow broke down while trying to read an exclusive Associated Press story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents at the southern border and s...
Jun 20, 2018