Category Archives: Canadian Press
Study reveals fishing's startling global footprint: 'It totally blows me away'
HALIFAX - Global fishing efforts are so wide ranging that fleets covered more than 460 million kilometres in 2016 - a distance equal to going to the moon and back 600 times. That startling revelation ...
Feb 22, 2018
Airbnb rentals being used for alleged human trafficking: Toronto police
Toronto police say a recent case of alleged human trafficking is the latest in a growing trend involving people using Airbnb rentals to conduct their illicit transactions. Det. Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi...
Feb 22, 2018
B.C. family says care home switched their mom's cat with robotic version
DUNCAN, B.C. - The family of a British Columbia woman who has dementia say staff at a care home removed her cat and replaced it with a robotic stuffed animal. Dawn Douglas has been living at the Sunri...
Feb 22, 2018
City of Montreal criticized after low-income tenants forced from 'unsafe' homes
MONTREAL - Between the leaky ceiling, rats, and occasional squatters in the staircase, the two-storey apartment building in Montreal’s Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood had its share of problem...
Feb 22, 2018
'Finally upon us:' Mayor says apprehension on eve of school shooter sentencing
LA LOCHE, Sask. - An imminent sentencing decision for a young man who pleaded guilty to fatal shootings at a school and a home is stirring anxiety in the remote northern Saskatchewan community where t...
Feb 22, 2018
Liberals to outline long-term Indigenous housing plan in budget, sources say
OTTAWA - Indigenous communities will find themselves with a long-term funding commitment in next week’s federal budget worth hundreds of millions of dollars to address the most acute housing sit...
Feb 22, 2018
Review can't pinpoint why flight school plane crashed near Calgary killing two
CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board says it doesn’t know what caused a plane operated by an Alberta university’s flight school to lose control and crash, killing two instructors with...
Feb 22, 2018
Oklahoma City receives rare lake effect snow from storm
Oklahoma City, meet the Great Lakes. A weather event known as lake effect snow that’s common in the upper Midwest and northeastern U.S., made a rare appearance at Oklahoma City’s Lake Hefn...
Feb 22, 2018
Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber out for rest of season, will require surgery
MONTREAL - Shea Weber’s season is over. The Montreal Canadiens announced Thursday that the veteran defenceman will miss the rest of the season as he undergoes surgery for a torn tendon in his le...
Feb 22, 2018
Trudeau: Invitation should not have gone to Sikh extremist
NEW DELHI - Canadian and Indian authorities were both scrambling Thursday to explain how a man convicted three decades ago of trying to kill an Indian politician in Canada slipped through security scr...
Feb 22, 2018