Category Archives: Canadian Press
Back-to-school stationery a distraction for some in the classroom
TORONTO - Post-it notes with emojis. Locker magnets shaped like pizza and poop. Pencil boxes featuring T.rex. These are some of the many back-to-school items currently sitting on the shelves of a Walm...
Sep 03, 2017
Judi Dench rules the Venice waves in 'Victoria & Abdul'
VENICE, Italy - It was a day of queens at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday - a real British monarch on the screen and two queens of acting, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren, on the red carpet. Dench play...
Sep 03, 2017
Authorities put up drug dealer's sneaker collection for sale
NEWARK, Ohio - A central Ohio county is selling off an assortment of collectible sneakers seized from a convicted drug dealer. The Columbus Dispatch reports there are 67 boxes of confiscated footwear ...
Sep 03, 2017
Hamilton wins Italian GP to move ahead of Vettel
MONZA, Italy - Lewis Hamilton won the Italian Grand Prix virtually unchallenged from pole position Sunday and moved ahead of Sebastian Vettel to take the lead in the drivers’ standings. Hamilton...
Sep 03, 2017
Hunters, government, industry at odds over deer urine
ALBANY, N.Y. - Deer hunters who like to lure their quarry with a dab of eau de doe-in-rut will have to find another way to attract a trophy buck in New York if state wildlife biologists have their way...
Sep 03, 2017
NewsAlert: Pentagon chief says threats to US, allies will be met with massive military response
WASHINGTON, Canada - Pentagon chief: Threats to US, allies ‘will be met with a massive military response … both effective and overwhelming’ The Canadian Press
Sep 03, 2017
Tories send Liberals a NAFTA olive branch, with strings attached
OTTAWA - Attack mode, says the Conservative Party’s new foreign affairs critic, will not be the opposition’s first instinct when dealing with the Liberal government’s renegotiation o...
Sep 03, 2017
Drug users say methadone formula switch contributed to B.C.'s opioid crisis
VANCOUVER - Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated treatment drug they say has...
Sep 03, 2017
B.C. failed to reduce wildfire risk, despite warning, communities say
VANCOUVER - The fire in Logan Lake started like so many others in British Columbia’s worst wildfire season on record - a smouldering campfire, not fully extinguished, sparked flames that spread ...
Sep 03, 2017
Storm-battered Quebec towns preparing for effects of changing climate
MONTREAL - The windswept archipelago of Iles-de-la-Madeleine used to spend most of every winter firmly encased in the ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, protected from the worst effects of winter storms...
Sep 03, 2017