Category Archives: Canadian Press
3 Ex-Penn St officials get jail terms in Sandusky abuse case
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A former president of Penn State and two other former university administrators were each sentenced Friday to at least two months in jail for failing to alert authorities to a 2001 a...
Jun 03, 2017
Cab company not liable for driver's alleged sex assault on passenger
TORONTO - A taxi company cannot be held liable for the alleged sexual assault of a passenger by one of its drivers, Ontario’s top court ruled on Friday. In dismissing an appeal by the complainan...
Jun 03, 2017
Impact, Red Bulls both needing wins in first meeting since conference semifinal
MONTREAL - For most of their first five seasons in Major League Soccer the Montreal Impact were dominated by the New York Red Bulls, but that all changed with a playoff upset in an Eastern Conference ...
Jun 03, 2017
Small ghost bike for a young Toronto boy: making a memorial for a cyclist
TORONTO - Geoffrey Bercarich has been making “ghost bikes” for fallen cyclists for more than a decade, but he’s never made one this small. At his Toronto home, he stands beside a chi...
Jun 03, 2017
New Halifax passenger ferries to be named for 1917 explosion hero, Mi'kmaq poet
Halifax’s two new ferries will be named after a poet laureate of the Mi’kmaq people and a railway dispatcher who in 1917 warned trains of an impending harbour explosion. The city announced...
Jun 03, 2017
US employers add modest 138K jobs; rate dips to 4.3 per cent
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in May by adding only 138,000 jobs, though the gains were enough to help nudge the unemployment rate down to a 16 year-low. The Labor Department said ...
Jun 03, 2017
Liverpool fetes 'Sgt. Pepper' with help from its friends
LIVERPOOL, England - It was 50 years ago, almost to the day, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. The band is long gone, but the music of The Beatles still reverberates - and nowhere more loudly ...
Jun 03, 2017
China likely to gain as US withdraws from Paris agreement
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s pullback from a global climate pact could accelerate China’s unlikely ascent toward leadership in stemming global warming and promoting green technolo...
Jun 03, 2017
AP Explains: Why China is stepping up against climate change
BEIJING - By backing off the U.S. commitment to address climate change, President Donald Trump leaves an opening for a chief economic rival, China, to expand its increasing dominance in the renewable ...
Jun 03, 2017
In Damascus, a general feeling that the war is winding down
DAMASCUS, Syria - In Syria’s capital these days, people are breathing a little easier. Across Damascus, new shops are sprouting up, business is brisk, and some people who fled the civil war year...
Jun 03, 2017