Category Archives: Canadian Press
TIFF adds recognition of Indigenous lands to public screening events
TORONTO - Audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival are used to the string of pre-movie announcements that traditionally unfold before the main attraction: requests to turn off cellphones, ...
Sep 12, 2017

B.C. city opts for outreach over enforcement to settle decades-long signage spat
RICHMOND, B.C. - Some councillors of a Vancouver-area city with a large Chinese population say they hope formalizing a policy of education and outreach will put to rest a divisive, decades-long disput...
Sep 12, 2017
Toronto FC promotes Corey Wray to assistant GM, team operations and strategy
Toronto FC has promoted Corey Wray to assistant general manager, team operations and strategy. The 32-year-old Wray, who previously served as the MLS club’s director of team operations, will foc...
Sep 12, 2017
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to testify in Liberal bribery trial
A courtroom in Sudbury, Ont., will play host Wednesday to the rare sight of a sitting premier on the stand as Kathleen Wynne testifies in a bribery trial involving a former top adviser and a Liberal f...
Sep 12, 2017
Clinton's catharsis: Book lays blame in multiple places for defeat to Trump
WASHINGTON - It’s inauguration day and the loser of the last U.S. presidential election is daydreaming about being anywhere but here - she’s imagining vacationing on a beach, speaking with...
Sep 12, 2017
Police: 'False alarm' prompted Barcelona basilica evacuation
MADRID - Police in Barcelona said a false alarm involving a suspicious van prompted the evacuation of the landmark Sagrada Familia basilica and its surroundings Tuesday evening. A spokesman with the M...
Sep 12, 2017
Judge: Amtrak engineer's deadly crash an accident, not crime
PHILADELPHIA - An unusual, 11th-hour attempt to put an Amtrak engineer behind bars for a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia unraveled Tuesday as a judge dismissed the case without trial because he...
Sep 12, 2017

Storybook Project aims to reduce stigma around suicide, give comfort, hope
TORONTO - Suicide. It’s a word rife with stigma, an act spoken about in hush-hush tones or not acknowledged at all - and one that leaves family and friends not only bereft but reeling at the des...
Sep 12, 2017
Cruz says aide inadvertently caused his porn Twitter post
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Cruz says an aide was responsible for the “like” that caused a pornographic post to briefly appear on Cruz’s Twitter feed overnight. The Texas Republican and 20...
Sep 12, 2017
Hodgson hired as manager of Crystal Palace, replaces De Boer
Roy Hodgson returned to soccer management for the first time since leaving his job as England coach last year, taking over at Premier League struggler Crystal Palace on Tuesday as a replacement for th...
Sep 12, 2017