Category Archives: Canadian Press
A list of smoke-free post-secondary campuses in Canada
McMaster University in Hamilton has announced plans to make the campus smoke-free in 2018. It is not the first Canadian post-secondary institution to take such a step. Below is a list of other univers...
Sep 19, 2017
Wilder, Singleton, Spencer named CFL top performers for Week 13
Toronto running back James Wilder Jr., Calgary linebacker Alex Singleton and Ottawa receiver Diontae Spencer are the CFL’s top performers for Week 13. Wilder scored his first CFL touchdown and r...
Sep 19, 2017
Deficit smaller than expected, but Trudeau stands by controversial tax changes
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded a defiant note Tuesday as he promised to press ahead with the Liberal government’s controversial tax changes even as clear new evidence emerged to ...
Sep 19, 2017
Quebec corruption unit arrests 8 in alleged Montreal municipal kickback scheme
MONTREAL - Eight people, including a former high-ranking Montreal city councillor, were arrested Tuesday and charged with running a kickback scheme whereby engineering companies would allegedly be awa...
Sep 19, 2017
Glenn Thibeault testifies in Liberal bribery trial in Sudbury, Ont.
SUDBURY, Ont. - A former New Democrat MP who left his party to run in an Ontario byelection for the provincial Liberals testified Tuesday that he asked for, and received, income replacement and paid j...
Sep 19, 2017
Jedidiah Bila departs ABC's 'The View;' no replacement named
NEW YORK - Conservative commentator Jedediah Bila has announced her departure from ABC’s “The View.” Bila made the announcement on Monday’s program, saying she was leaving to w...
Sep 19, 2017
O'Reilly says his ouster was hit job and business decision
NEW YORK - Bill O’Reilly said Tuesday that his firing from Fox News Channel in April was a “political hit job” and that his network’s parent company made a business decision to...
Sep 19, 2017
Trump's lawyer to publicly testify in Senate next month
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s lawyer will return to Capitol Hill for a public hearing next month after the Senate intelligence committee abruptly cancelled a closed-door staff interview ...
Sep 19, 2017
Prosecutors to argue Pistorius should get more jail time
JOHANNESBURG - Oscar Pistorius faces another legal challenge when South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal convenes Nov. 3 to hear arguments by state prosecutors that the former track star and con...
Sep 19, 2017
Equifax Canada says 100,000 Canadians may be affected by cyberattack
TORONTO - Equifax Canada said Tuesday approximately 100,000 Canadian consumers may have had their personal information and credit card details compromised in a massive cyberattack that also affected 1...
Sep 19, 2017