Category Archives: Canadian Press
Huawei exec details health problems in affidavit submitted to B.C. court
VANCOUVER - Huawei’s chief financial officer says she has suffered a lifetime of health problems, including thyroid cancer, sleep apnea and high blood pressure, but she is ready to fight allegat...
Dec 12, 2018
Second Canadian missing in China after questioning by authorities: Freeland
OTTAWA - A second Canadian is missing in China after alerting Global Affairs Canada that he was being questioned by Chinese authorities, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday. Mich...
Dec 12, 2018
Actor, director Ron Howard visits Oklahoma birthplace
DUNCAN, Okla. - Oscar-winning director and actor Ron Howard returned to his home state of Oklahoma and the now-closed hospital where he was born. Howard’s Instagram site this week featured a pho...
Dec 12, 2018
Argentine actor in anti-sex abuse video accused of rape
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine television actor who participated in a video asking women to denounce sexual assaults is himself being accused of rape. Actress Thelma Fardin accused Juan Darthe...
Dec 12, 2018
Ken Hitchcock has Oilers rolling, but other coaching changes falling flat
When the struggling Edmonton Oilers dropped the axe on head coach Todd McLellan and replaced him with the briefly-retired Ken Hitchcock last month, part of Peter Chiarelli’s reasoning for the mo...
Dec 12, 2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May wins party no-confidence vote, but troubles remain
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a brush with political mortality Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party an...
Dec 12, 2018
N.W.T. plans reforms to child services after scathing report by auditor general
YELLOWKNIFE - The government of the Northwest Territories has delivered a plan for major reforms to child services after a scathing report by the federal auditor general. “We will make steady, m...
Dec 12, 2018
Arendz wins gold, fellow Canadian McKeever takes silver at IPC Nordic WCup stop
VUOKATTI, Finland - Mark Arendz won a gold medal in the men’s standing division while fellow Canadian Brian McKeever took silver in the men’s visually impaired category Wednesday at the op...
Dec 12, 2018
Wish comes true: Ontario teen becomes prime minister for the day
OTTAWA - Fifteen-year-old Aiden Anderson wants potential voters to remember his name because one day, he says, he will be prime minister. The Ontario teen wanted to know what the job is like and this ...
Dec 12, 2018
MPs bid farewell to their Parliamentary home for at least 10 years
OTTAWA - As he does almost every day before attending question period, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bounded down the stairs between his third-floor office in Parliament Hill’s Centre Block and ...
Dec 12, 2018