Category Archives: Canadian Press
Quebec Court of Appeal reduces sentence for man who dated 14-year-old
MONTREAL - Quebec’s top court has reduced the sentence of a 23-year-old man who had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl, while not fully sparing the man from jail time. In a decision this wee...
Apr 5, 2018
New Brunswick premier suspends Speaker amid allegations of harassment
FREDERICTON - The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature has been suspended from the Liberal caucus pending an investigation into allegations of harassment. Premier Brian Gallant announced Chris Col...
Apr 5, 2018
Federal, B.C. privacy czars team up to investigate Facebook and AggregateIQ
OTTAWA - The federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners are joining forces to investigate Facebook and Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ - two firms at the centre of an international ...
Apr 5, 2018
Former fertility doctor accused of impregnating more women with own sperm
OTTAWA - A law firm pursuing a class-action suit against a former Ottawa fertility doctor says it has evidence indicating he fathered 11 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm. Two years...
Apr 5, 2018
Medically assisted suicide becomes legal in Hawaii
HONOLULU - Hawaii became the latest liberal-leaning state to legalize medically assisted suicide Thursday as the governor signed a measure into law allowing doctors to fulfil requests from terminally ...
Apr 5, 2018
Senators fear legal pot will hike number of Canadians barred entry to U.S.
OTTAWA - Meetings with American officials have done nothing to calm the fears of Conservative senators that legalization of marijuana could exponentially increase the number of Canadians barred for li...
Apr 5, 2018
Facebook: Most users may have had public data 'scraped'
NEW YORK - Facebook’s acknowledgement that most of its 2.2 billion members have probably had their personal data scraped by “malicious actors” is the latest example of the social net...
Apr 5, 2018
General orders new review of troubled flight that led to sexual assault charges
OTTAWA - The military’s top soldier has ordered a second investigation into a recent Team Canada trip that resulted in sexual-assault charges against a former NHL player and cast a cloud over th...
Apr 5, 2018
Walmart Canada says it will rehire disabled workers let go last week
MONTREAL - Walmart Canada is backtracking on a controversial decision to withdraw from a program that provided work experience in its Quebec stores to people with disabilities or autism. The decision ...
Apr 5, 2018
Did Trump know about payment to Stormy Daniels? He says no
In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump said he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment his personal attorney had made to the porn actress who alleges she had an...
Apr 5, 2018