Category Archives: Canadian Press
German police say dead cow kicked slaughterhouse worker
BERLIN - Police in southern Germany say a slaughterhouse worker suffered serious injuries after being kicked in the face by a dead cow. In a statement, police said the cow was “killed according ...
Feb 22, 2019

Mueller report looming, new attorney general in hot seat
WASHINGTON - William Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of t...
Feb 22, 2019

Trudeau tells Canadians to listen to clerk in SNC-Lavalin matter
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured Monday to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the prime minister and his staff pressured former attorney general J...
Feb 22, 2019

Plan to bring grieving mother's relatives to Halifax 'moving quickly'
HALIFAX - Federal officials are closer to bringing as many as 10 relatives of a grieving Syrian refugee to Nova Scotia, as Halifax residents prepared to gather Saturday for the funeral of her seven ch...
Feb 22, 2019

Allegations against son led to Time's Up CEO's resignation
LOS ANGELES - The gender equality initiative Time’s Up says its president and CEO resigned because of sexual misconduct allegations against her son. The group on Friday issued a statement explai...
Feb 22, 2019

Trump vows veto as Democrats try to block emergency order
WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote next week to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, acce...
Feb 22, 2019

Celebrities, athletes, others accused of lying to the public
CHICAGO - Actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in Chicago in January in a celebrity scandal that has captured attention online and in the media. Smollett is...
Feb 22, 2019

Defence lawyer raises new questions about timing of Richard Oland's killing
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A tense cross-examination of the final prosecution witness at the Dennis Oland murder trial has raised new questions about the time Richard Oland was killed. John Ainsworth, the own...
Feb 22, 2019

Wintour honours Lagerfeld; Bottega Veneta shows new direction
MILAN - Anna Wintour paid tribute Friday to Karl Lagerfeld’s generosity and sense of humour as she presented a new fashion exhibition. Elsewhere in Milan, Versace unveiled its first womenswear c...
Feb 22, 2019
Powerful 7.5-magnitude quake hits southern Ecuador
LIMA, Peru - A very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday close to the country’s border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casu...
Feb 22, 2019