Category Archives: Canadian Press
Madagascar counting votes in runoff presidential poll
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - The counting of ballots has started in Madagascar’s runoff presidential election, after the polls closed to end the generally peaceful voting Wednesday. There was a re...
Dec 19, 2018
LA bishop resigns 13 years after church learned of sex claim
LOS ANGELES - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Alexander Salazar, following an allegation of sexual misconduct with a child in the 1990s, official...
Dec 19, 2018
Solskjaer looks to rescue United again, this time as coach
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is on another rescue mission at Manchester United, this time as manager. The former striker who became a United great by conjuring up important goals typically as a substitute - m...
Dec 19, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 19
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 19 --- APPEAL COURT TO RULE IN B.C. TERROR CASE British Columbia’s Appeal Court is scheduled to release a decision today on a couple whose guilty ver...
Dec 19, 2018
'Here is my home:' Refugee whose fingers froze off finds hope in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Razak Iyal still wakes up in the middle of the night feeling the icy winds on Christmas Eve two years ago when his life drastically changed. “It comes into my dreams all the time. I a...
Dec 19, 2018
Donald and Robert and Chuck and Nancy: Washington will be must-see TV in 2019
WASHINGTON - Living alongside the United States has been likened to sleeping with a twitching, grunting elephant - a political animal that’s now on the verge of a full-blown, delirious fever dre...
Dec 19, 2018
Trudeau sees 2019 election as choice between positive Liberals, divisive Tories
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says he’s confident he’ll win re-election next fall by sticking to a positive, thoughtful approach to difficult issues, in contrast to the Conservatives whom he acc...
Dec 19, 2018
B.C. Appeal Court upholds stay in terror case over alleged bomb plot
VANCOUVER - The RCMP’s conduct in its investigation of an alleged bomb plot at the B.C. legislature was a “travesty of justice” when officers continued to pursue the case against a c...
Dec 19, 2018
Judge's rebuke of Flynn upends sentencing, prolongs case
WASHINGTON - A federal judge who described himself as disgusted by Michael Flynn’s behaviour upended a straightforward sentencing hearing, postponing punishment for President Donald Trump’...
Dec 18, 2018
Yemeni mom overcomes travel ban to finally hold dying son
SAN FRANCISCO - A Yemeni mother cradled her 2-year-old son in her lap, pressing her face close to his and clasping his hand as a series of tubes kept his small body alive. Shaima Swileh touched the bo...
Dec 18, 2018