Category Archives: Canadian Press
US pledges $10.6B aid for Central America, southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY - The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid...
Dec 18, 2018
Removal of disputed Los Angeles school mural put on hold
LOS ANGELES - Amid growing objections, the Los Angeles Unified School District has paused plans to paint over a campus mural of actress Ava Gardner that Koreatown activists contend resembles the Japan...
Dec 18, 2018
New Brunswick government loosens requirement for bilingual paramedics
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s minority Tory government is eliminating the requirement that it provide bilingual paramedics in every part of Canada’s only officially bilingual province. The...
Dec 18, 2018
Armed forces avoided using Norman's name, left no record trail: witness
OTTAWA - A Canadian Forces member says his commanding officer appeared proud when he revealed last year that military officials had intentionally avoided using Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s name in...
Dec 18, 2018
Ottawa Senators owner Melnyk facing counterclaim for more than $1 billion
OTTAWA - The battle between Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and business partner John Ruddy over a proposed new downtown arena has escalated. Ruddy and Trinity Development Group Inc., are seeking ...
Dec 18, 2018
Sandra Bullock's Oscars host solution: Call on random actors
NEW YORK - Sandra Bullock has an impromptu idea for how to solve the Oscars host problem, and it involves a lot of improvisation. The Oscar-winning actress told The Associated Press Monday at a screen...
Dec 18, 2018
New B.C. Lions coach DeVone Claybrooks adds eight to coaching staff
VANCOUVER - B.C. Lions rookie head coach DeVone Claybrooks has filled out his staff for the 2019 season, adding eight new members including coaching veteran Rich Stubler and recently retired players N...
Dec 18, 2018
Olivia Newton-John memoir coming out in US in 2019
NEW YORK - Olivia Newton-John’s autobiography, released last fall in her longtime home Australia, comes out in the U.S. in 2019. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Tues...
Dec 18, 2018
Author Alice Walker criticized for support of writer's book
NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker and The New York Times are drawing fire after she praised an author who critics say expresses anti-Semitism and is a conspiracy theorist. In an in...
Dec 18, 2018
Leafs prospect Sandin's 'outstanding' season set to continue with Sweden at WJHC
TORONTO - Rasmus Sandin often heads over to Timothy Liljegren’s place after the Toronto Marlies wrap up practice. The Swedish defencemen usually just hang out, cook food and sometimes talk about...
Dec 18, 2018