Category Archives: Canadian Press
Federal Court rules hearing can proceed on pesticides blamed for bee deaths
OTTAWA - A Federal Court decision allowing a lawsuit over pesticides blamed for decimating bee populations could affect dozens of common agricultural chemicals, environmentalists say. “This case...
Apr 12, 2018
Harder accuses Tories of sabotaging move to independent, less partisan Senate
OTTAWA - The government representative in the Senate is accusing Conservative senators of deliberately trying to sabotage Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to turn the upper house into a l...
Apr 12, 2018
Anchorage voters are 1st in US to defeat 'bathroom bill'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Voters in Alaska’s largest city have become the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill referendum that asked them to require people to use public bathrooms and...
Apr 12, 2018
Guitar makers hit hard by new regulations on prized rosewood
CONCORD, N.H. - An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of...
Apr 12, 2018
In opioid epidemic, some cities strain to afford OD antidote
BALTIMORE - On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America’s opioid epidemic. But the tr...
Apr 12, 2018
Second Cup sets its sight on converting some coffee shops into pot dispensaries
TORONTO - Second Cup wants to serve up a different kind of buzz by converting some of its coffee shops into cannabis dispensaries and, when legal, pot lounges. Shares in the Canadian restaurant operat...
Apr 12, 2018
Russian meddling? Resignation? Zuckerberg notes have answers
WASHINGTON - Here’s what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted members of Congress to know about the scandal in which Cambridge Analytica used the massive social platform to access 87 million user...
Apr 12, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Facebook makes shaky data and privacy claims
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made several assertions about Facebook’s data collection and privacy controls during two days of hearings on Capitol Hill. Those included claims that Facebook lets y...
Apr 12, 2018
Zuckerberg faces 'Grandpa' questions from lawmakers
NEW YORK - Mark Zuckerberg faced two days of grilling before House and Senate committees Tuesday and Wednesday to address Facebook’s privacy issues and the need for more regulation for the socia...
Apr 12, 2018
Ryan retirement sends new ripples of uncertainty through GOP
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan’s abrupt announcement that he will retire rather than seek another term in Congress as the steady if reluctant wingman for President Donald Trump sent new ri...
Apr 12, 2018