Category Archives: Canadian Press
Former CTV Winnipeg news director charged in bank robberies in Alberta
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A former CTV Winnipeg news director and sports anchor has been arrested on robbery charges in Alberta. Medicine Hat police say Stephen Vogelsang, who is 53, is charged with two c...
Oct 23, 2017
'He's gone just like that:' Man dies after walnut shells used at work site
EDMONTON - Justin Mathews had a lifelong nut allergy and was always careful, so his family is stunned that he died after visiting a work site where walnut shells were used to blast paint off walls. Th...
Oct 23, 2017
New York attorney general launches probe of Weinstein Co.
ALBANY, N.Y. - State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation on Monday into The Weinstein Co. following sexual harassment and assault allegations against its co-found...
Oct 23, 2017
New York attorney general launches probe of Weinstein Co.
ALBANY, N.Y. - State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation on Monday into The Weinstein Co. following sexual harassment and assault allegations against its co-found...
Oct 23, 2017
Saskatchewan Indigenous leader concerned about fatal shooting of man by RCMP
SASKATOON - The head of an organization representing Saskatchewan First Nations is expressing concern following the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man by RCMP. Brydon Whitstone of the Onion Lake Cree...
Oct 23, 2017
Montreal Impact fire head coach Mauro Biello after missing playoffs
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact are looking for a top level coach that they hope can take them to new heights in Major League Soccer. The Impact fired coach Mauro Biello and his staff on Monday, a day ...
Oct 23, 2017
Russian National Guard officer kills 4 comrades, shot dead
MOSCOW - The Russian National Guard says one of its officers shot and killed four other servicemen at a barracks in the Russian republic of Chechnya before guards fatally shot him. The agency said in ...
Oct 23, 2017
Dandelions found in oilsands tailings could help clean them up: researchers
It wasn’t much of a bouquet - just a single lonely dandelion. But it had been plucked from the middle of a barren stretch of oilsands coarse tailings. University of Saskatchewan biologist Susan ...
Oct 23, 2017
Amazon says it received 238 proposals for 2nd headquarters
NEW YORK - Amazon said today that it received 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico hoping to be the home of the company’s second headquarters. The online...
Oct 23, 2017
Dalhousie under fire for probing student leader, 'censoring' political speech
HALIFAX - Dalhousie University is facing scrutiny for investigating a student leader’s polarizing social media comments as a group of law professors and a civil liberties group accuse the univer...
Oct 23, 2017