Category Archives: Canadian Press
Vancouver Island university develops program to help kids cope with overdose crisis
NANAIMO, B.C. - Prof. Teri Derksen says an unforgettable image of children playing overdose games in a park became the vision behind a university research project to help kids whose family members hav...
Mar 21, 2018
Selena Gomez responds after bikini pics show scar
NEW YORK - Selena Gomez took to Instagram after bikini photos of her in Australia showing a scar drew social media comments that she looked “thick.” The singer wrote that the beauty myth w...
Mar 21, 2018
No rest for the retired: Opioid crisis fills empty nests as grandparents step up
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - She is a Newfoundland woman who worked hard all her adult life to raise a family. Her struggles had just started to ease up with her children grown and she had hoped her 50s m...
Mar 21, 2018
Congolese performance artist wins political asylum in US
HARTFORD, Conn. - For a week, Toto Kisaku was held in a darkened Congolese cell, detained for putting on plays critical of the African nation’s government. One at a time, his fellow inmates were...
Mar 21, 2018
Obama in New Zealand for meetings, golf, but no public talks
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Former President Barack Obama arrived Wednesday for a three-day visit to New Zealand, where he’ll speak with community leaders, meet the prime minister and play golf. T...
Mar 21, 2018
2nd high bond set in Stoneman Douglas-related case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A relatively high bond was imposed Wednesday in a case involving a student who brought a knife to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, one day after the same judge set a $500,...
Mar 21, 2018
Israeli military confirms it hit Syrian nuclear site in 2007
TEL AVIV, Israel - The Israeli military confirmed on Wednesday it carried out the 2007 airstrike in Syria that destroyed what was believed to be a nuclear reactor, lifting the veil of secrecy over one...
Mar 21, 2018
US anti-terror training abroad includes K-9, cyber security
AMMAN, Jordan - A German shepherd sniffed suitcases in an airport inspection drill, excitedly pausing near one bag from which a handler then pulled a satchel with plastic explosives. The exercise at t...
Mar 21, 2018
Burundi on brink again as president wants to rule until 2034
BUJUMBURA, Burundi - Declared this month by supporters as Burundi’s “eternal supreme guide,” President Pierre Nkurunziza now wants changes to the constitution that would let him rule...
Mar 21, 2018
Clandestine videos roil Peru ahead of impeachment vote
LIMA, Peru - The revelation of secretly shot videos allegedly showing attempts to buy a lawmaker’s political support has roiled Peru’s political establishment two days before a scheduled i...
Mar 21, 2018