Category Archives: Canadian Press
Caretaker of neglected, bone-strewn cemetery is arrested
A fuller picture of a cemetery in ghastly disarray emerged Thursday as the longtime caretaker of a graveyard in Connecticut’s largest city was arrested and officials described in new detail shoc...
Dec 06, 2018
Quackarazzi: Mandarin duck holds NYC in its spell
NEW YORK - It took just days for the brightly colored Mandarin duck that appeared suddenly in a Central Park pond to turn both New Yorkers and visitors into a new gaggle: the quackarazzi. A horde of p...
Dec 06, 2018
Thousands salute Bush funeral train 4141 on final Texas ride
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train No. 4141 - for the 41st president - carried George H.W. Bush’s remains to their final resting place on Thurs...
Dec 06, 2018
Canada's Sharpe riding high into halfpipe season as Olympic champ
Cassie Sharpe gained a boost in popularity this year when she returned from Pyeongchang with an Olympic gold medal. The halfpipe skiing champion was name-dropped in a tweet by Canadian actor and Deadp...
Dec 06, 2018
B.C. Speaker chairs all-party meeting on legislature finances, personnel issues
VICTORIA - An all-party committee that oversees the financial management of British Columbia’s legislature meets today in the midst of an ongoing mystery that saw the building’s top two of...
Dec 06, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 6
Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 6 --- FORCILLO TO LEARN IF TOP COURT WILL HEAR APPEAL A Toronto police officer who shot a teenager on an empty streetcar five years ago finds out today if ...
Dec 06, 2018
Canadian businesses face retaliatory risk after Huawei arrest: analysts
OTTAWA - Canada’s arrest of a Chinese telecommunications executive in Vancouver at the request of the United States sparked widespread surprise, but in security and diplomatic circles it was pur...
Dec 06, 2018
Women in vulnerable demographics most at risk of domestic homicide, study finds
More than three quarters of Canada’s domestic homicide victims were women, according to a new report released Thursday that said belonging to some specific demographic groups elevates the risk o...
Dec 06, 2018
Ontario environment minister meets with federal counterpart in Toronto
TORONTO - The federal environment minister met with her Ontario counterpart in Toronto on Thursday, where they discussed the province’s new plan to address climate change. The Progressive Conser...
Dec 06, 2018
Liberals revamp contentious anti-abortion test for summer jobs funding
OTTAWA - Contentious wording in Ottawa’s summer-jobs program that required groups to declare themselves supportive of abortion rights to get funding has been dropped, and new rules put in place ...
Dec 06, 2018