Category Archives: Canadian Press
Opposition parties grill government over plans to legalize cannabis by July 2018
OTTAWA - Three Liberal cabinet ministers came under fire Tuesday by opposition parties concerned about sweeping implications of federal pot plans set to take effect next summer. Justice Minister Jody ...
Sep 19, 2017
B.C. filmmaker uses false name to promote policy charging more to white males
VICTORIA - A man behind a “justice-pricing” policy based on charging higher admission to white males attending the screening of his movie says he used a false name to promote it because he...
Sep 19, 2017
No reports of Canadian casualties following 7.1 quake in Mexico: Freeland
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says there are no reports of Canadian casualties following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 200 people in Mexico. The U.S. Geologica...
Sep 19, 2017
Ivory dealer goes undercover to help bust Canadian wildlife smuggler
SEATTLE - A Washington ivory and antiquities dealer will serve six months in prison after pleading guilty to federal smuggling charges four years ago and then going undercover to help authorities pros...
Sep 19, 2017
New Air Canada Centre security measures crack down on bags, re-entry privileges
TORONTO - New security initiatives and Toronto’s Air Canada Centre will end in-and-out privileges and crack down on fans bringing bags into the arena. The arena, which is home to the NHL’s...
Sep 19, 2017
Tucson's giant cactus gift rejected by Amazon in bid for HQ
TUCSON, Ariz. - Amazon has rejected the 21-foot (6.4-meter) Saguaro cactus that southern Arizona economic leaders planned to send as a gift to CEO Jeff Bezos, in a bid to attract the company’s s...
Sep 19, 2017
Blue Bombers defensive end Jamaal Westerman out for rest of 2017 season
Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive end Jamaal Westerman has been sidelined for the remainder of the 2017 CFL season with an undisclosed upper-body injury. The Blue Bombers confirmed the injury Tuesday on...
Sep 19, 2017
In posthumous speech, Chan urges good will and courage to face the future
OTTAWA - Arnold Chan’s final speech to the House of Commons, delivered posthumously Tuesday by fellow Liberal MP Mark Holland, offered an optimistic vision that goodwill, openness and courage ca...
Sep 19, 2017
Court certifies class-action suit involving 450 foreign workers who got no jobs
VANCOUVER - The Supreme Court of British Columbia has certified a class-action lawsuit against Mac’s Convenience Stores and three immigration consultants alleged to have collected thousands of d...
Sep 19, 2017
Suncor investigating after more than 100 birds die at new oilsands mine
CALGARY - Oilsands giant Suncor Energy says it is mystified by the discovery Sunday of dead and dying birds at a nearly complete northern Alberta mine that hasn’t produced its first official bar...
Sep 19, 2017