Category Archives: Canadian Press
New gas-sniffing crisis grips Natuashish Innu: 'They're doing it on the street'
NATUASHISH, N.L. - Fifteen years after the Innu of Davis Inlet were moved to a fresh start in nearby Natuashish, leaders are once again fighting to keep kids as young as 11 from sniffing gas. “T...
May 15, 2017
Pizza delivery man takes pie to stalled Amtrak train
NEWPORT, Del. - A pizza delivery man in Delaware got an order from an unusual address: a stalled Amtrak train from New York on its way to Washington. Passenger Mitchell Katz posted a video of delivery...
May 15, 2017
First lady: Barron to attend private Episcopal school in MD
WASHINGTON - First lady Melania Trump has announced that her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland, beginning this fall. The announcement answered one of the lingering questi...
May 15, 2017
'We were feeling like the hunted:' Wounded officer recalls Moncton rampage
MONCTON, N.B. - A Mountie who was wounded during a shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B., said he has “absolutely no doubt” that he could have downed Justin Bourque had he been armed with a ca...
May 15, 2017
Drug tests at B.C. supervised injection site found 80% contained fentanyl
Almost 80 per cent of street drugs tested for fentanyl at a Vancouver safe injection site were laced with the potentially deadly opioid, a nine-month pilot study has found. The study, presented Monday...
May 15, 2017
AP Explains: How lawmakers get their health care
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former Navy pilot who at 80 has had several health setbacks, gets his coverage from the Department of Veterans Affairs. House leaders, like Speaker Paul Rya...
May 15, 2017
AP Explains: North Korea missile test is huge step forward
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test may be nearly as big a deal as the country’s propaganda machine claims. Although outside experts see several places ...
May 15, 2017
The new Vegas namaste: Yoga on a Ferris wheel, near dolphins
LAS VEGAS - Surrounded by imposing Las Vegas hotel-casinos in the foreground and desert mountains in the background, the group breathed deeply and loudly as an instructor guided them through their pos...
May 15, 2017
School sex complaints to federal agency rise - and languish
HOUSTON - Hector and Itza Ayala sat in a conference room at Houston’s prestigious high school for the performing arts, clutching a document they hoped would force administrators to investigate t...
May 15, 2017
Schools face vexing test: Which kids will sexually attack?
The children who sexually assault other children may be the popular jocks, the loners or anyone in between. There is no typical attacker, no way for schools to predict who might inflict that kind of t...
May 15, 2017