Category Archives: Canadian Press
Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, couple, friends
LONDON - The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents. They include a teenage couple who died together and two mothers p...
May 26, 2017
Kennedys discuss JFK's legacy 100 years after his birth
BOSTON - John F. Kennedy didn’t make it even halfway to 100 - a milestone he might have celebrated next week - but the slain U.S. president’s legacy is being lived out by members of his fa...
May 26, 2017
Trump criticizes German trade surplus, again
TAORMINA, Italy - President Donald Trump has criticized Germany’s trade surplus with the United States, drawing attention to a contentious issue at a summit of world leaders where trade is alrea...
May 26, 2017
Key dates in Sri Lanka's contributions to UN peacekeeping
Sri Lanka’s participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations began while the country was embroiled in a brutal, generation-long civil war. Yet, even as Sri Lanka refused to investigate alleged war ...
May 26, 2017
UN Peacekeepers: How a Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The general sat on a plastic lawn chair in the garden of his mother’s home, the scent of tropical blooms filling the air as he talked about the alleged rape and sodomy of a ...
May 26, 2017
Virtue, Moir and Chan headline Skate Canada International in Regina
OTTAWA - Canada’s world ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and three-time world champion Patrick Chan will open the 2017 Grand Prix season at Skate Canada International. The Interna...
May 26, 2017
European addiction experts urge expansion of medical heroin program in Canada
VANCOUVER - Addiction experts from five European countries say their experience with prescription heroin programs have provided overwhelming evidence to suggest Canada should expand its one clinic in ...
May 26, 2017
That's Saint John not St. John's: Sea Dogs shake off branding blunder at MemCup
WINDSOR, Ont. - The Saint John Sea Dogs shook off an embarrassing branding blunder at the Memorial Cup this week, taking it in stride in true Maritime spirit. The Sea Dogs arrived in Windsor for the C...
May 26, 2017
Bolanos the Whitecaps' offensive catalyst with Vancouver set to host D.C. United
VANCOUVER - The raking cross dipped in and out of the tricky late-afternoon shadows at B.C. Place Stadium as it steamed towards Christian Bolanos. Instead of trying to control the ball for himself whe...
May 26, 2017
Canada's Warner poised for third Gotzis title in his decathlon season debut
A Canadian record and a hat trick are on the line when Damian Warner makes his season decathlon debut this weekend. The 27-year-old from London, Ont., is the favourite to capture a third Hypo Meeting ...
May 26, 2017