Category Archives: Canadian Press
Cash family: Keep Johnny's name away from 'hateful ideology'
NASHVILLE - The children of Johnny Cash are asking white supremacists and other hate groups not to wear or use the country singer’s name or image. In a lengthy Wednesday night Facebook post from...
Aug 17, 2017
Nova Scotia's Liberal government to table budget shelved by election Sept. 26
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government will next month re-introduce a budget shelved because of its May 30 election call. The budget will be tabled Sept. 26, five days after the legislature ...
Aug 17, 2017
Pikangikum First Nation to be connected to Ontario power grid by next fall
The federal government announced up to $60 million in funding Thursday to connect a remote northwestern Ontario First Nation to the province’s power grid. Pikangikum First Nation, a community ne...
Aug 17, 2017
Raw feelings close to the surface at Fox over Trump remarks
NEW YORK - A Fox News Channel anchor whose reaction to President Donald Trump’s comments on Charlottesville spread widely says she feels threatened but not deterred after a flood of angry respon...
Aug 17, 2017
Virginia clashes bring attention to anti-fascist movement
SEATTLE - The deadly white nationalist demonstration in Virginia has brought new attention to an anti-fascist movement whose black-clad, bandanna-wearing members have been a regular presence at protes...
Aug 17, 2017
Australian court: Refugee camp in Papua New Guinea is legal
SYDNEY, Australia - Australia’s highest court ruled on Thursday that the country’s policy of sending asylum seekers who try to reach its shores by boat to migrant camps in Papua New Guinea...
Aug 17, 2017
Veterans get expanded college assistance under Trump
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Military veterans are getting unlimited access to college assistance under legislation President Donald Trump has signed into law. The Forever GI Act removed a 15-year limit on usi...
Aug 17, 2017
Anti-Muslim Australian senator wears burqa in Parliament
CANBERRA, Australia - An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pa...
Aug 17, 2017
Brother of Pole implicated kidnap plot to fight extradition
LONDON - The brother of a Polish man suspected of kidnaping a British model will fight his extradition to Italy. The U.K. National Crime Agency says officers arrested Michal Konrad Herba, 36, in centr...
Aug 17, 2017
Battered bronze sphere returns to World Trade Center site
NEW YORK - A 25-ton, bronze sphere damaged by the collapsing World Trade Center is finally being returned to a spot overlooking the rebuilt site. Workers on Wednesday began hoisting sections of the Ko...
Aug 17, 2017