Category Archives: Canadian Press
Study: Bullying persists in school, reports of sex crime up
WASHINGTON - One in every 5 middle and high school students has complained of being bullied at school and the number of reports of sexual assault on college campuses has more than tripled over the pas...
May 16, 2017
Supreme Court order unlikely to deter voting restrictions
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court’s refusal to breathe new life into North Carolina’s sweeping voter identification law might be just a temporary victory for civil rights groups. Republican-l...
May 16, 2017
School district pulls suicide book 'Thirteen Reasons Why'
DENVER - As a Colorado community mourns the loss of seven students who recently killed themselves, a school district official ordered librarians to temporarily stop circulating a book that’s the...
May 16, 2017
China's fondness for pirated software raises risks in attack
BEIJING - China’s fondness for pirated software left it especially vulnerable to the latest global cyberattack. Beijing has tolerated rampant use of unlicensed software copies despite repeated p...
May 16, 2017
Missile Defence 101: N. Korea could hit with little warning
TOKYO - The scenario has become pretty familiar by now. Sometime in the early morning, a missile roars off its launcher in North Korea and flies off - to a splash zone somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. ...
May 16, 2017
Analysis: Trump intel sharing risks damaging US alliances
WASHINGTON - For months, U.S. allies have anxiously wondered if President Donald Trump could be trusted with some of the world’s most sensitive national security secrets. Now, just a few days be...
May 16, 2017
ESPN's Mowins set to be 1st woman to call NFL game since '87
BRISTOL, Conn. - ESPN has tapped Beth Mowins to call the second part of a season-opening “Monday Night Football” doubleheader in September, making her the first woman do play-by-play dutie...
May 16, 2017
Body of Canadian killed fighting ISIL in Syria will soon be back home: mother
TORONTO - If Tina Martino couldn’t receive a call from her son this mother’s day, word that his body was finally being returned home for a proper burial was the next best thing. Martino le...
May 16, 2017
China's chase of the 'golden visa' abroad, by the numbers
From the United States and Canada to small islands in Europe and the Caribbean, Chinese are spending billions on new passports and visas to move their families away from their homeland. China’s ...
May 16, 2017
How AP collected, parsed data on China's investor immigrants
BEIJING - At least two dozen countries offer a new home to people willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a business, real estate or government bonds. And there’s no bigger market ...
May 16, 2017