Category Archives: Canadian Press
Text of statement from Gerald Butts, who resigned as PM's principal secretary
OTTAWA - Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his friend since university days, issued this statement Monday afternoon: I have resigned as Principal Secretary to The ...
Feb 18, 2019
Missing hiker not seen by rescuers after team rescues friend near Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A search and rescue manager says a missing hiker has not been spotted by rescuers who have flown above an area where an avalanche struck north of Vancouver. Allan McMordie of North Shore S...
Feb 18, 2019
Body found after apparent house explosion in Calgary, police investigating
Calgary police say a body has been recovered from the site of an apparent house explosion in the city’s southeast. Sgt. Dwayne Lepchuk declined to say whose remains were found. Fire department s...
Feb 18, 2019
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh calls for public inquiry over SNC-Lavalin questions
BURNABY, B.C. - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says a public inquiry is necessary in the scandal involving engineering giant SNC-Lavalin and Canada’s former justice minister. Singh says seriou...
Feb 18, 2019
No plan for Smollett to do follow-up police interview Monday
CHICAGO - Attorneys for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett say there are no plans for him to meet with Chicago detectives Monday for a follow-up interview about his reported assault. Anne Kava...
Feb 18, 2019
Reds' Joey Votto tries to rebound from subpar season
GOODYEAR, Ariz. - Joey Votto has spent the off-season trying to make sure he doesn’t have another subpar season. The Cincinnati Reds star led the NL in on-base percentage last year but hit 12 ho...
Feb 18, 2019
Mermen calendar targets 'toxic masculinity,' raises big money for charities
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - What started as a dare for a burly Newfoundland man to pose in mermaid flippers has turned into a globally known effort to combat gender stereotypes - and raised more than a h...
Feb 18, 2019
Defence at mother's murder trial says girls' deaths remain a mystery
LAVAL, Que. - The lawyer for a Quebec mother accused of killing her two daughters said Monday that 10 years after the girls were found dead in their playroom, there is still no explanation of what hap...
Feb 18, 2019
Trudeau's principal secretary, Gerald Butts, resigns amid SNC-Lavalin furor
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government was rocked Monday by the resignation of his principal secretary, Gerald Butts, amid allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office interfered to ...
Feb 18, 2019
Sailor in iconic V-J Day Times Square kiss photo dies at 95
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II died Sunday. George Mendonsa was 95. Mendonsa fell and had a seizure at the assisted li...
Feb 18, 2019