Category Archives: Canadian Press
Playmate tastes shame, ordered to clean up urban grit
LOS ANGELES - Dani Mathers earned fame posing as a nude model. She gained notoriety on the other side of the camera when she snapped a photo of an unwitting and unwilling subject - a naked 71-year-old...
May 24, 2017
Taiwan becomes 1st in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage
TAIPEI, Taiwan - In a first for Asia, Taiwan’s constitutional Court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, punctuating a yearslong campaign by advocates for gay rights in one of the ...
May 24, 2017
French president seeks to extend state of emergency
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to extend a state of emergency, in place since Islamic State attacks on France in 2015, following this week’s attack on a concert in Mancheste...
May 24, 2017
Five stories in the news today, May 24
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 24 --- TRUDEAU HEADS TO EUROPE FOR NATO, G7 SUMMITS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves today for Brussels for the NATO leaders’ summit, the first su...
May 24, 2017
Trump's budget means deep cuts for health care safety net
WASHINGTON - Candidate Donald Trump promised better and more affordable health care, but as president his first full budget calls for deep cuts to popular insurance programs. And it omits any proposal...
May 24, 2017
The Latest: Trump to hold Iowa rally next week
BRUSSELS - The Latest on President Donald Trump’s first trip abroad (all times local): 7:30 p.m. Donald Trump will be returning to the campaign trail just a few days after he wraps up his first ...
May 24, 2017
Setting aside past rude talk, Trump and pope focus on peace
VATICAN CITY - Handshakes, gifts, friendly small talk and big hopes for peace. Setting aside past differences and rude comments aside, President Donald Trump and Pope Francis put a determinedly positi...
May 24, 2017
Summer temperatures will be like 'whiplash', says meteorologist
TORONTO - Temperatures this summer are expected to feel like “whiplash,” and may swing between hot and cool over the course of the season, a top meteorologist says. The Weather Network rel...
May 24, 2017
PM in Brussels for NATO summit, where terrorism, cost of defence top agenda
BRUSSELS - The new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a massive, state-of-the-art facility that cost more than a billion euros to build - was designed to help the military allian...
May 24, 2017
Bank of Canada says uncertainty still clouds stronger growth, holds rate at 0.5%
OTTAWA - Uncertainties continue to obscure the economy’s stronger-than-expected start to the year, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it stuck with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per ce...
May 24, 2017