Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ex-Liberal candidate in Burnaby, B.C., says volunteer wrote controversial post
VANCOUVER - A former Liberal byelection candidate says her political career is “probably” over after an online post singled out NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s ethnicity, but she’s ...
Jan 17, 2019
Legault lays out Quebec demands for federal leaders facing fall election
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec Premier Francois Legault laid out a shopping list of demands Thursday that he expects party leaders to address as they woo voters in his province during the coming federal el...
Jan 17, 2019
Ontario's Tories eliminate free tuition for low-income students
TORONTO - Ontario has eliminated free tuition for low-income students as it attempts to trim a multibillion-dollar deficit, a move that - despite an accompanying tuition fee cut - is being slammed as ...
Jan 17, 2019
Barack Obama, former U.S. president, to speak in Vancouver in early March
VANCOUVER - Former United States president Barack Obama is coming to Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at ...
Jan 17, 2019
Hundreds of people lost millions in GTA taxi fraud scam, police say
TORONTO - An ongoing fraud and identity theft operation targeting taxi riders in the Greater Toronto Area has already cost hundreds of people millions of dollars, city police said Thursday as they ann...
Jan 17, 2019
Fans buy 'Little House on the Prairie' star's memorabilia
GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. - More than 200 items belonging to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert and her husband, Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, have been purchased in an ...
Jan 17, 2019
Edmonton Eskimos sign Canadian kicker Hugh O'Neill to contract extension
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos re-signed Canadian kicker/punter Hugh O’Neill on Thursday to a contract extension through the 2020 season. O’Neill appeared in all 18 regular-season games w...
Jan 17, 2019
Lowry in but Leonard, Anunoby and Valanciunas to sit out Phoenix game
TORONTO - The Raptors got some good news Thursday with star point guard Kyle Lowry and C.J. Miles both pronounced fit to play against the Phoenix Suns. Toronto said earlier in the day that Lowry, Kawh...
Jan 17, 2019
Germany: Love Parade trial headed for inconclusive end
BERLIN - The trial of 10 people in Germany over a deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010 appears likely to be closed without a formal verdict. Four event organizers and six...
Jan 17, 2019
Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign OL Stanley Bryant to one-year extension
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed offensive lineman Stanley Bryant to a one-year contract extension Thursday. Bryant was named the CFL’s top lineman for a second straight season in ...
Jan 17, 2019