Category Archives: Canadian Press
Netflix buys movie made partly at Louisiana Gothic jail
DERIDDER, La. - Netflix has bought the rights to a movie set partly in a southwest Louisiana landmark called the Gothic Hanging Jail . Charlie Shotwell plays the title role in “Eli,” about...
Jan 15, 2019
Canadian Premier League commissioner offers a look at new league ahead of kickoff
TORONTO - The clock is ticking down to the Canadian Premier League kickoff and commissioner David Clanachan acknowledges there is still plenty to do. “I will tell you the world started spinning ...
Jan 15, 2019
ICC judges acquit former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Delivering a stinging defeat to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minis...
Jan 15, 2019
Spanish rescuers bore tunnel in frantic search for toddler
MADRID - Rescuers in southern Spain are digging a horizontal tunnel in an attempt to reach the bottom of a deep and narrow borehole where they hope to find a 2-year-old toddler, two days after he disa...
Jan 15, 2019
Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada says she's a lucky one
TORONTO - A Saudi teen who shot to international prominence through her dramatic flight from an allegedly abusive family said Tuesday that she will devote her new life in Canada to fighting for the fr...
Jan 15, 2019
Urgent action needed to improve bus safety: Transportation Safety Board
OTTAWA - The head of the Transportation Safety Board says Canada needs to move fast on better national “crashworthiness” standards for buses and other commercial passenger vehicles in ligh...
Jan 15, 2019
Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson wants to return to politics
BURNABY, B.C. - Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson is attempting a political comeback, nearly 15 years after his theft of an expensive diamond ring brought an end to his decades-long career. Standi...
Jan 15, 2019
Zimbabwe military quells fuel price protests; several deaths
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s police and military patrolled the streets of the capital, Harare, Tuesday as a helicopter fired tear gas at demonstrators blocking a road and burning tires on a sec...
Jan 15, 2019
Monday's Games
Monday’s Games NHL Edmonton 7 Buffalo 2 Colorado 6 Toronto 3 Montreal 3 Boston 2 (OT) Philadelphia 7 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 4 Washington 1 New Jersey 8 Chicago 5 — AHL Manitoba 3 Milwaukee ...
Jan 14, 2019
Scores and Schedule
Monday’s Games NHL Edmonton 7 Buffalo 2 Colorado 6 Toronto 3 Montreal 3 Boston 2 (OT) Philadelphia 7 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 4 Washington 1 New Jersey 8 Chicago 5 — AHL Manitoba 3 Milwaukee ...
Jan 14, 2019