Category Archives: Canadian Press
Wandering river otter avoids trap in tiny downtown Vancouver park
VANCOUVER - The wandering river otter with a taste for decorative and valuable koi carp has managed to elude a trap set Tuesday in hopes of removing it from a classical Chinese garden in Vancouver. Of...
Nov 21, 2018
Trump demands judicial 'common sense,' shrugs off Roberts
WASHINGTON - Incensed by a ruling against his migrant asylum policy, President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded “some common sense” from America’s judges and directed his ire at a l...
Nov 21, 2018
Kirsty Duncan: If the brain doesn't work properly, nothing else does
TORONTO - Kirsty Duncan was 13 or 14 when she suffered what she believes was surely a concussion. Now Canada’s minister of science, sport and people with disabilities, Duncan was a gymnast, and ...
Nov 21, 2018
Former Ticats Dyakowski, Hage seeking Conservative nomination in Hamilton ridings
HAMILTON - Two former Hamilton Tiger-Cats are hoping to have the same success in the political arena that they had on the gridiron. In a joint press conference at the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, P...
Nov 21, 2018
Attorney: Rapper 6ix9ine innocent of racketeering charges
NEW YORK - The defence attorney for Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine says his client is “completely innocent” of federal racketeering and firearms charges. The rapper, whose legal name is D...
Nov 21, 2018
Children end effort to contest Glen Campbell's wills
NASHVILLE - Three of country singer Glen Campbell’s children have dropped their fight to contest the validity of two wills that exclude them from any inheritance. The Tennessean reported the sib...
Nov 21, 2018
Statistics Canada blames guns, gangs as homicide rate hits 10-year high
OTTAWA - Canada’s national homicide rate last year was the highest it’s been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. In a report rel...
Nov 21, 2018
Liberals give notice for law to end Canada Post strike as sides dispute backlog
OTTAWA - The federal government has given notice that they’re prepared to legislate Canada Post employees back to work as the postal service and union spar over the scale of the backlog the rota...
Nov 21, 2018
Canada eyes sweeping free-trade deal with China but remains open to sector deals
OTTAWA - A full-scale trade deal between Canada and China is possible even as Canada remains open to striking smaller sector-by-sector agreements, says International Trade Minister Jim Carr. Speaking ...
Nov 21, 2018
European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google
LONDON - In the battle for online privacy, U.S. search giant Google is a Goliath facing a handful of European Davids. The backlash over Big Tech’s collection of personal data offers new hope to ...
Nov 21, 2018