Category Archives: Canadian Press
Embarrassing loss at home sparked Calgary Flames charge to top of division
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames bounced from humiliation into first place in their division in a few short weeks. Since an embarrassing 9-1 loss at home Oct. 25 to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flames hav...
Dec 14, 2018
Chinese-Canadians have varying reactions to Canada's handling of Huawei case
VANCOUVER - As an international story about a Chinese tech executive wanted by the United States began unfolding from a Vancouver courtroom, the phone lines for a local Mandarin-language radio program...
Dec 14, 2018
Michigan governor signs bills to gut wage, sick time laws
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday signed laws to significantly scale back citizen-initiated measures to raise Michigan’s minimum wage and require paid sick leave for workers, finalizin...
Dec 14, 2018
Questions raised over retailers who shame shoplifters with photos
A Newfoundland sex store’s social-media shaming of an alleged shoplifter has raised ethical questions around retailers who display security footage in a bid to catch thieves. Provincial privacy ...
Dec 14, 2018
Crown urges judge to keep case focused on vice-admiral's actions, not his motive
OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors have urged an Ottawa judge to keep the case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman focused on his actions - not his motives - as they seek to limit the release of thousands of g...
Dec 14, 2018
Comedian Lange avoids jail time despite positive drug test
NEWARK, N.J. - A judge has spared comedian Artie Lange jail time even though he tested positive for cocaine and amphetamine. Despite the positive test Friday in Newark, the judge ordered Lange’s...
Dec 14, 2018
Boxer Samuel Vargas and promoter Lee Baxter look to win world title together
TORONTO - Lee Baxter first met Samuel Vargas when the Colombian-Canadian boxer walked into Baxter’s tattoo parlour in 2012. Six years later, the two are best friends and Baxter runs a boxing pro...
Dec 14, 2018
Rash of bomb threats a learning opportunity for response capacity, Goodale
TORONTO - Law enforcement officials in Canada and beyond will be working to learn lessons about how to best respond to bomb threats after a rash of such incidents this week, the federal public safety ...
Dec 14, 2018
Some B.C. fish farms to close or move in bid to help wild salmon recover
VICTORIA - All 17 fish farms in British Columbia’s Broughton Archipelago will either be closed or moved in an effort to create a migration path for wild salmon. The agreement between the federal...
Dec 14, 2018
Brad Gushue, Glenn Howard win tiebreakers to move on at the National
CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - Hometown skip Brad Gushue has made it into the playoffs the hard way at the National. Gushue downed Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller 4-1 on Friday night in a tiebreak...
Dec 14, 2018