Category Archives: Canadian Press
Quebec town's plan to ban public smoking could do more harm than good: advocate
MONTREAL - A Montreal suburb’s plan to ban all smoking in public places is drawing mixed reactions, with one anti-tobacco advocate saying it will do more harm than good when it comes to second-h...
Mar 7, 2018
Puerto Ricans still stranded in hotels 6 months after storm
From the lobby of a hotel on the outskirts of Boston, Jesenia Flores fills out an online job application, hoping to find work that will get her small family back to normal for the first time since Hur...
Mar 7, 2018
Confessions brought relief, but now killer set to walk free
TOLEDO, Ohio - One of two brothers who admitted stalking, raping and killing young women during a string of eight murders in the 1980s is close to walking out of prison. Nathaniel Cook confessed to th...
Mar 7, 2018
Hops and hopes: Female brewers toast Women's Day
Female brewers worldwide are raising a stein to International Women’s Day. Thousands of women in the beer business and female homebrewers are brewing together around the event, which falls on Th...
Mar 7, 2018
Texas primary turnout buoys Democrats' hopes again
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas is the latest place where Democrats are finding optimism for 2018 after kicking off the nation’s primary election season with their biggest midterm turnout in more than a q...
Mar 7, 2018
Democrats would reverse some tax cuts to fund infrastructure
WASHINGTON - For Senate Democrats, voting against the Republican tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law wasn’t opposition enough. Now they have a plan to reverse some of the tax br...
Mar 7, 2018
Pennsylvania vote to test labour's strength and loyalty
PITTSBURGH - The fight for the hearts and minds of America’s labour unions is raging in western Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden has suddenly stopped smiling. In the midst of a speech to boost Demo...
Mar 7, 2018
Manicurist accuses Steve Wynn of sexual misconduct suit
LAS VEGAS - A woman who says she regularly performed manicures on embattled casino mogul Steve Wynn on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual misconduct and the company he founded of endorsing...
Mar 7, 2018
US law poses dilemma for dying vets seeking lethal drugs
SAN DIEGO - Suffering from heart problems, Bob Sloan told his children he wants to use California’s new law allowing life-ending drugs for the terminally ill when his disease becomes too advance...
Mar 7, 2018
Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate
NEW YORK - In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games can trigger violent behaviour. There’s just one problem: ...
Mar 7, 2018