Category Archives: Canadian Press
Children quieted others at California school as gunman fired
RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. - Teacher Jennifer Bauman threw herself against a classroom door that wouldn’t lock right, terrified that the gunman shooting outside her small Northern California ...
Nov 16, 2017
Treasury head, wife mocked for photo of them holding money
WASHINGTON - A photo of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife posing with a sheet of new $1 bills - the first notes bearing his signature - is prompting people to poke fun at them online. The...
Nov 16, 2017
New Ulysses Grant presidential library at home in the South
STARKVILLE, Miss. - It’s not ironic, but intentional. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who won the Civil War and later the presidency, is back in Mississippi in a way few would have imagined ...
Nov 16, 2017
Trump urges 3 UCLA players to thank China leader for release
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump urged three suspended UCLA basketball players on Thursday to thank China’s president for their freedom after they shoplifted in China. The president’s s...
Nov 16, 2017
Rohingya woman in Bangladesh helps others flee Myanmar
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh - Zahida Begum doesn’t remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18 months old when her mother smuggled her across th...
Nov 16, 2017
Texas man targeted 12-year-old Ontario girl using a messaging app: police
WINDSOR, Ont. - A 25-year-old man in Texas has been arrested after a 12-year-old Ontario girl was allegedly encouraged to send explicit photos of herself to him. Windsor police say the girl began chat...
Nov 16, 2017
Famed London theatre receives 20 allegations against Spacey
London’s Old Vic Theatre said Thursday it has received 20 allegations of inappropriate behaviour by its former artistic director Kevin Spacey, and acknowledged that a “cult of personality&...
Nov 16, 2017
Baloney Meter: How much is the government going to collect from tax cheats?
OTTAWA - “Our investments have already yielded results. We are on track to recuperate $25 billion from our efforts against tax avoidance and tax evasion.” - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ...
Nov 16, 2017
Miss Golden Globe honour renamed Golden Globe Ambassador
LOS ANGELES - The group behind the Golden Globe awards says its Miss Golden Globe honoree will now be known as the Golden Globe Ambassador. Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Meher Tatna sa...
Nov 16, 2017
Statue breaks 'bronze ceiling': Halifax unveils first monument to women
HALIFAX - They sang and played accordion, knitted scarves and sewed quilts, and served up heaping plates of roast beef and potatoes to hundreds of hungry servicemen. Now, more than 70 years later, Nov...
Nov 16, 2017