Category Archives: Canadian Press
Elton John celebrates 25 years of AIDS foundation
NEW YORK - A teary and emotional Elton John celebrated the 25th anniversary of his AIDS foundation with a gala in New York City, raising about $4.4 million and telling the audience that they would end...
Nov 08, 2017
New looks come to Snapchat and Twitter in bid for more users
SAN FRANCISCO - Struggling social-media darlings Twitter and Snapchat are taking on new looks as the services seek wider audiences in the shadow of Facebook. Twitter is rolling out a 280-character lim...
Nov 08, 2017
Romania: Royal family reports ex-king's grandson to police
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania’s royal house has filed a complaint with Swiss police alleging that the estranged grandson of the ailing ex-King Michael I tried to force his way into his grandfathe...
Nov 08, 2017
House, Senate negotiators agree on $700 billion for Pentagon
WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators have agreed on an annual defence policy bill that authorizes $700 billion for the Pentagon in the 2018 fiscal year, a dramatic increase over the amount Presid...
Nov 08, 2017
Canada's first HIV-positive restaurant opens in Toronto to counter stigmas
TORONTO - While working as a sexual health educator in Calgary several years ago, artist and activist Mikiki would often gently correct clients who said they had never met a gay person. Actually, you ...
Nov 08, 2017
Angelina Jolie expected to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit
OTTAWA - Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week’s peacekeeping summit in Vancouver. A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Ca...
Nov 08, 2017
N.B. woman sues minister and church for damages after box-cutter assault
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick woman who claims that her former Anglican minister and lover tried to kill her is suing him and the church for damages. Cynthia Mae Moore claims she had an extramari...
Nov 08, 2017
Family of B.C. murder suspect says Oscar Arfmann fought mental illness
VANCOUVER - A family member of an Alberta man charged with the first-degree murder of a British Columbia police officer say the accused had been struggling since losing his wife almost five years ago....
Nov 08, 2017
Dozens of men say Sri Lankan forces raped and tortured them
LONDON - One of the men tortured in Sri Lanka said he was held for 21 days in a small dank room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down. Another...
Nov 08, 2017
East Coast offers homeless insights as West Coast struggles
NEW YORK - It’s before dawn when two outreach workers find a homeless man known as Juice near a train station in Harlem. A nurse will be visiting to discuss his heart problems, they tell him. A ...
Nov 08, 2017