Category Archives: Canadian Press
Asylum seeker's death failure by Ottawa to get Trump to change policies: premier
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the federal government has failed to reduce the risk in illicit border crossings because it has not tried to persuade the U.S. president to soften his ...
Jun 02, 2017
Jerry Garcia's guitar heads to auction, could fetch $1M
NEW YORK - A guitar that Jerry Garcia played everywhere from San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom to Egypt’s Great Pyramids is headed to auction on Wednesday night. The Grateful Dead frontm...
Jun 02, 2017
Big month ahead for Canada-U.S. trade: multiple irritants come to a head in June
WASHINGTON - The multiple ways in which Donald Trump could threaten Canada-U.S. trade will be on full display this month, with a series of looming decisions and public events that hold the potential t...
Jun 02, 2017
B.C. overdose death rates hit new high, chief coroner says 'opioid naive' at risk
VANCOUVER - The death toll from drug overdoses is still rising in British Columbia but the chief coroner says the count would be higher if it weren’t for harm prevention measures. The coroner...
Jun 02, 2017
Closing arguments delayed in Ontario nurse manslaughter trial
BARRIE, Ont. - Closing arguments have been postponed in the manslaughter trial of an Ontario nurse who took a patient off life support without a doctor’s order. Legal issues prompted the last-mi...
Jun 02, 2017
Crew member had been awake 23 hours when train derailed: TSB report
CALGARY - An investigation into a derailment at a rail yard has found that the locomotive engineer had been awake for 23 hours when the accident occurred and employee fatigue remains a key safety issu...
Jun 02, 2017
Nine-year-old girl taken to hospital after drinking 'Unicorn Milk' vaping fluid
FREDERICTON - A nine-year-old New Brunswick girl was taken to hospital after consuming e-cigarette fluids from a brightly labelled “Unicorn Milk” bottle, her mother says. Lea L’Hoir ...
Jun 02, 2017
Verdict expected Thursday for engineer charged in Ontario mall roof collapse
A discredited former engineer who signed off on the health of a northern Ontario mall just weeks before it collapsed in June 2012 finds out Thursday if he bears any criminal responsibility for the two...
Jun 02, 2017
Vancouver defender Shannon Woeller earns Canada callback for Costa Rica games
TORONTO - Vancouver defender Shannon Woeller, summoned by coach John Herdman as an injury replacement in April, has earned a callback for Canada’s games against Costa Rica in Winnipeg and Toront...
Jun 02, 2017
Raonic through to third round at French Open, Abanda defeated by Wozniacki
PARIS - Canada’s Milos Raonic is through to the third round of the French Open after a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva on Wednesday. Raonic fired his 25th ace of t...
Jun 02, 2017