Category Archives: Canadian Press
Petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures
QUEBEC - A petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures after two incidents involving horses on the weekend. Local police say the first occurred when a horse suddenly took o...
May 23, 2017
New Zealand race car driver Dixon calls robbery a big "contrast"
TORONTO - It was intended as a celebration but turned into a nightmare. Two days after he was robbed at gunpoint, IndyCar driver Scott Dixon reflected on the harrowing experience that was a big “...
May 23, 2017
Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist source protection
TORONTO - Protection for a journalist’s sources currently exists in legal void that needs filling given the importance of media to our democracy, a new application to the Supreme Court of Canada...
May 23, 2017
Quebec byelection poster denouncing Canadian multiculturalism upsets some people
MONTREAL - A candidate in a Quebec provincial byelection has triggered controversy with a campaign poster that criticizes Canadian multiculturalism and shows a photo of a woman wearing a niqab. Alexan...
May 23, 2017
US says Fiat Chrysler used software to beat emissions tests
DETROIT - The U.S. government is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that some diesel pickup trucks and Jeep SUVs cheat on emissions tests. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Justice Department alleges that n...
May 23, 2017
Are 30-somethings earning more than their parents? StatCan study says yes
OTTAWA - A new study from Statistics Canada appears to suggest that 30- and 40-something Canadians are more likely to live the American dream of earning more than their parents than their counterparts...
May 23, 2017
Colin White makes NHL post-season debut for Senators in Game 6 against Penguins
OTTAWA - Colin White made his NHL post-season debut for the Ottawa Senators in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final. White, who has played two regular season games in his career, started on a line w...
May 23, 2017
New roller coaster replaces the one Sandy plunged into sea
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy plunged a roller coaster into the sea in what became one of the storm’s most enduring images, the ride has been replaced - safely...
May 23, 2017
Graduation day bittersweet for slain black scholar's friends
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A black Bowie State University student who police say was fatally stabbed by a white stranger was honoured Tuesday at the commencement ceremony where he would have walked across th...
May 23, 2017
Police find Nazi items, explosives during murder probe
Investigators found white supremacist propaganda, bomb-making materials and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a Florida apartment where a teenager killed two roommates who...
May 23, 2017