Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada loses twice at world women's curling championship to fall to 3-4
SILKEBORG, Denmark - Canada’s Chelsea Carey has some work to do to make the playoffs at the world women’s curling championship after dropping both of her games on Tuesday. Scotland’s...
Mar 19, 2019
Tommy Orange wins PEN/Hemingway Award for debut novel
NEW YORK - Novelist Tommy Orange keeps winning awards. PEN America announced Tuesday that the author of “There There,” the most honoured literary debut of 2018, has received the PEN/Heming...
Mar 19, 2019
Jerry Lee Lewis cancels shows, is recovering from stroke
NASHVILLE - Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has been transferred from a hospital to a rehabilitation centre following a stroke last month, but will have to cancel upcoming shows, inc...
Mar 19, 2019
Attorney seeks pardon for Laurie Bembenek murder conviction
MADISON, Wis. - The attorney for Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek, Wisconsin’s most famous runaway fugitive who insisted until her death in 2010 that she did not kill her husband’s ex-w...
Mar 19, 2019
Chicago police union wants federal probe in Smollett case
CHICAGO - The Chicago police union’s president alleges that the county’s top prosecutor interfered with the investigation of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett before recusing hers...
Mar 19, 2019
'Dirty John'-style romance scams cost Canadians millions, police say
One expert calls it a “Dirty John” scenario: An alleged scam artist who woos victims with romance and charm. Simon Sherry, a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psycho...
Mar 19, 2019
A look at Alberta's elections since the province was created in 1905
EDMONTON - A chronology of Alberta elections: Nov. 9, 1905: Lawyer Alexander Rutherford, son of an immigrant farmer from Scotland, leads the Liberals to a lopsided victory over R.B. Bennett’s Co...
Mar 19, 2019
A list of Alberta premiers since the province was created in 1905
EDMONTON - A list of Alberta’s premiers: Rachel Notley, NDP, 2015- Jim Prentice, Progressive Conservative, 2014-2015 Dave Hancock (interim), Progressive Conservative, 2014 Alison Redford, Progre...
Mar 19, 2019
Fought to unite Alberta conservatives: Former MP Kenney ready to run for premier
EDMONTON - Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney finally gets his title shot. It's not a chance the former federal Conservative cabinet minister saw coming until he put together a plan in the summer ...
Mar 19, 2019
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants chance to 'finish that job'
EDMONTON - Premier Rachel Notley says her childhood in the semi-isolated town of Fairview in northern Alberta taught her to adapt and improvise - even if means sticking your spouse on the hood of the ...
Mar 19, 2019