Category Archives: Canadian Press
We do! Newlyweds accept fire truck ride after bus blaze
AVON, Conn. - A newlywed couple had no problem saying “I do” a second time, when Connecticut firefighters asked them if they wanted a ride to their reception after their bus was disabled b...
Jun 12, 2017
Riders head coach/GM says QB Young out 4-6 weeks with torn hamstring
REGINA - Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Vince Young has a torn hamstring and will likely be out of action for about four to six weeks. Roughriders head coach and general manager Chris Jones upda...
Jun 12, 2017
'Use your head but follow your heart': ill MP delivers plea to Parliament
OTTAWA - MPs in the Commons paused Monday to listen to an emotional speech by Ontario MP Arnold Chan, who spoke of his struggle with cancer while he appealed to his fellow parliamentarians for more ci...
Jun 12, 2017
Longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court leaving in December
OTTAWA - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is stepping down from the Supreme Court of Canada in December after 28 years on the court, including almost 18 years as chief. McLachlin, 74, is the first wom...
Jun 12, 2017
Correction: Interior-National Monuments story
SALT LAKE CITY - In a story June 13 about the national monuments review, The Associated Press reported erroneously the year the Antiquities Act was passed. It was enacted in 1906, not 1908. A correcte...
Jun 12, 2017
August trial set in ex-CFL player McKnight's death
NEW ORLEANS - The man charged in the shooting death of former CFL and NFL running back Joe McKnight is scheduled to go on trial in August. A judge in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna on Monday set an ...
Jun 12, 2017
B.C. child killer too much of a threat for escorted outings, Crown says
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The crimes of a man who stabbed his daughter to death and smothered his two sons are so brutal he should be barred from escorted outings into the community, a Crown attorney sa...
Jun 12, 2017
School buses collide in Haliburton, Ont., sending 21 students to hospital
HALIBURTON COUNTY, Ont. - More than 20 students from a Toronto middle school were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Monday after two school buses collided on their way to a camp i...
Jun 12, 2017
Solo sailor, 73, describes sudden trouble at sea: 'The boat had inverted'
HALIFAX - Alone in the mid-Atlantic, 73-year-old Mervyn Wheatley awoke early Friday to heaving swells threatening to capsize his weathered sailboat, Tamarind. He stumbled from his bunk in the dark, gr...
Jun 12, 2017
Theater refuses to buckle after 'Caesar' Trump criticism
NEW YORK - The Public Theater is refusing to back down after backlash over its production of “Julius Caesar” that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie w...
Jun 12, 2017