Category Archives: Canadian Press
Vice urges RCMP to drop demand for materials if accused terrorist long dead
TORONTO - A Canadian news outlet at the centre of a closely watched media-freedom case is calling on the RCMP to drop its demand for a journalist’s background materials used for stories on a sus...
Sep 20, 2017
Forecasting groundhog Wiarton Willie dies at 13
The albino groundhog at the centre of Canada’s most high-profile weather forecasting tradition has died. Wiarton Willie, a famous contributor to Groundhog Day festivities, died on Friday, accord...
Sep 20, 2017
Saint-Louis-du-Ha!Ha!, Que., gets Guinness World Record nod for exclamation points
MONTREAL - A small community in Quebec has entered the Guinness World Records - with not one but two exclamation points. The municipality of Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, located on the south shore of the S...
Sep 20, 2017
Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty to escape, fraud
SALT LAKE CITY - A high-ranking polygamous sect leader recaptured after a year on the run pleaded guilty Wednesday in a food-stamp fraud and escape case, ending a wide-ranging investigation seen as a ...
Sep 20, 2017
Loui Eriksson eager to atone for forgettable first season with Canucks
Loui Eriksson’s first season with the Vancouver Canucks can pretty much be summed up by an unfortunate sequence in the first period of his first game. The effort was there. The results? Not so m...
Sep 20, 2017
'No body, no parole': Alberta candidate wants law to help victims' families
EDMONTON - A would-be politician in Alberta wants Canada to adopt a “no body, no parole” law that would give killers a chance at freedom if they revealed the locations of missing victims. ...
Sep 20, 2017
Feds reviewing budgets and schedules for new resupply ships, icebreaker
OTTAWA - Canada’s multibillion-dollar plan to buy new warships for the navy isn’t the only federal shipbuilding project sailing in uncharted waters. Federal officials are reviewing the bud...
Sep 20, 2017
While home runs surge across Major League Baseball, Jays' power numbers stagnate
TORONTO - When the ball cleared the fence at Rogers Centre on Tuesday night to set a Major League Baseball record for home runs in a season, it didn’t come off the bat of Toronto sluggers Jose B...
Sep 20, 2017
Suspect in Quebec Amber Alert still hospitalized, case put off one week
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A Superior Court justice ordered a medical evaluation on Wednesday of the suspect who fled authorities last week with his six-year-old boy and who was later charged in the slaying...
Sep 20, 2017
Southern Quebec visited by 'unprecedented' number of painted lady butterflies
MONTREAL - The millions of black-and-orange butterflies that have carpeted flower beds across the Montreal area in recent days are waiting for winds to carry them south to warmer weather, according to...
Sep 20, 2017