Category Archives: Canadian Press
National youth policy a matter of 'managing expectations'
OTTAWA - Three years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised a national youth policy, the federal government is still trying to determine what it should include. Trudeau appointed himself the min...
Feb 11, 2019
Doctors launch organization to fight for stronger gun laws in Canada
TORONTO - A group of doctors has launched a new organization to fight for stronger gun laws in Canada, arguing that gun violence is devastating their patients and communities. Canadian Doctors for Pro...
Feb 11, 2019
Trost, Tories, settle leadership dispute over leak of membership list
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party has cleared Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost’s leadership campaign over a leak of the party’s membership list to the National Firearms Association ahead o...
Feb 11, 2019
Crown argues Toronto Eaton Centre shooter knew what he was doing
TORONTO - A man who killed two people and injured several others when he opened fire at Toronto’s Eaton Centre may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but prosecutors said Monday ...
Feb 11, 2019
Quebec man faces manslaughter charge in death of 5-month-old baby girl
ST-JEROME, Que. - A 24-year-old Quebec man faces charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death after a baby girl was found unconscious inside a home west of Montreal. Police found the ...
Feb 11, 2019
Ontario Tories attack student unions in fundraising email
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford accused student unions of getting up to “crazy Marxist nonsense” as he appealed for donations to his Progressive Conservative party in a fundraising email sent ...
Feb 11, 2019
PBS' 'Finding Your Roots' looks into political leaders' past
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., hopes this season of his popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots” helps a divided U.S. see how all Americans have unique family l...
Feb 11, 2019
Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
HOUSTON - A renowned Michigan opera singer and his husband have appeared in a Texas court to face charges of sexually assaulting another man in 2010. University of Michigan professor and countertenor ...
Feb 11, 2019
CBC's Joe Schlesinger remembered for compassionate reporting, esteemed career
TORONTO - Longtime CBC foreign correspondent Joe Schlesinger, who spent decades covering war zones and global events that shaped history, has died after a lengthy illness. A spokesman for the public b...
Feb 11, 2019
Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet sidelined three weeks with thumb injury
Toronto Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet is expected to miss at least three weeks with a partial ligament injury to his left thumb. VanVleet will wear a splint for three weeks, the team said in a sta...
Feb 11, 2019