Category Archives: Canadian Press
Imagine Dragons among Vegas shooting benefit headliners
LAS VEGAS - The Killers and Imagine Dragons are headlining a benefit concert next month to help the victims of the shooting at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas. Organizers on Tuesday announced s...
Nov 07, 2017
Saudis' bolder moves to confront Iran echo across region
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia is more aggressively confronting its rival Iran on multiple fronts. It’s a policy that risks sharpening several conflicts in the Middle East, even thou...
Nov 07, 2017
NY Times calls Weinstein lawyer conduct inexcusable
NEW YORK - The New York Times on Tuesday called it inexcusable that lawyer David Boies’ firm tried to halt the newspaper’s investigation into sexual harassment charges against Hollywood mo...
Nov 07, 2017
Anti-gay-marriage clerk to seek re-election
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples will run for re-election in 2018, facing voters for the first time since her protest again...
Nov 07, 2017
Canadiens Drouin calls dropping pants at bench funny, but embarrassing
BROSSARD, Que. - Jonathan Drouin has cleared up the mystery over what he was doing with his pants down at the bench during the Montreal Canadiens’s game in Chicago. He was removing Flexall, a ge...
Nov 07, 2017
Canadiens goalie Price to miss "a few more days" with lower body injury
BROSSARD, Que. - The lower body injury suffered by goaltender Carey Price last week is not related to a knee injury that caused him to miss most of the 2015-16 season, Montreal Canadiens coach Claude ...
Nov 07, 2017
Victims of ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest give emotional impact statements
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - Sex-assault victims of ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest delivered emotional impact statements Tuesday, with one telling the court he had robbed her of her childhood and acted like a ...
Nov 07, 2017
Japanese internment letters convey betrayal at loss of homes, heirlooms
VICTORIA - Judy Hanazawa says the federal government sold her family’s fishing boats and homes while her parents were in internment camps during the Second World War, but what hits hardest is se...
Nov 07, 2017
NEB to consider next month if B.C. city obstructing pipeline construction
OTTAWA - The National Energy Board says it will not expedite the process to determine if the city of Burnaby, B.C. is deliberately obstructing construction of the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline by r...
Nov 07, 2017
New veterans more likely to have hard time adjusting to civilian life: survey
OTTAWA - As Canadians prepare to mark Remembrance Day, a new survey by Statistics Canada suggests a growing number of veterans are having a hard time adjusting to post-military life. The survey - cond...
Nov 07, 2017