Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ukraine: Comedian surges ahead in presidential election poll
MOSCOW - The latest opinion poll in Ukraine shows a popular comedian holding a strong lead in campaigning for the presidential election. The survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Soc...
Feb 14, 2019

Car bomb kills at least 33 Indian soldiers in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India - At least 33 soldiers were killed and about 20 others wounded Thursday in a car bomb attack on a paramilitary convoy along a key highway in Indian-controlled Kashmir, security officia...
Feb 14, 2019
Prince Philip won't be charged in UK car crash
LONDON - Prince Philip won’t face charges in connection with a car collision that left two women injured, British prosecutors said Thursday. The decision came just days after Buckingham Palace s...
Feb 14, 2019
Cardi B headlining Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Rapper Cardi B, blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr., and rock mainstays The Killers and the Dave Matthews Band are among the acts scheduled to perform at the Beale Street Music Festival in...
Feb 14, 2019

In the news today, Feb. 14
Six stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 14 --- QUADRIGACX CASE TO RETURN TO HALIFAX COURT TODAY The bizarre case involving the cryptocurrency firm QuadrigaCX is expected to return to a Halifax cour...
Feb 14, 2019

Sailor shortage causing headaches for Royal Canadian Navy
OTTAWA - A shortage of sailors is making it hard for the Royal Canadian Navy to operate its ships and work on replacing them at the same time, according to a senior naval officer. The revelation by Co...
Feb 14, 2019

Drug users, advocates fear federal election may sideline safer opioids policy
VANCOUVER - The co-founder of a national group of parents whose children have died of overdoses fears the looming federal election will derail any policy changes that could make a safer supply of opio...
Feb 14, 2019

Almost half of EI sickness-benefit recipients off work longer than help lasts
OTTAWA - An internal government survey of people who used federal sickness benefits has found that nearly half were unable to work for longer than the 15 weeks the benefits last. The newly released do...
Feb 14, 2019

Lawyer says QuadrigaCX is out of money: 'We don't have anything'
HALIFAX - Once one of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, QuadrigaCX has now run out of money. “As of today, we don’t have anything,” Maurice Chiasson, a lawyer represen...
Feb 14, 2019

Saskatchewan's challenge of federal carbon tax in hands of Appeal court
REGINA - Five Saskatchewan judges have reserved their decision on the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax after two days of hearings in Regina. Lawyers representing provincial governme...
Feb 14, 2019