Category Archives: Canadian Press
New fingerprint algorithm helps ID bodies found decades ago
DES MOINES, Iowa - Just after Thanksgiving Day in 1983, James Downey dropped off his older brother, John, at a Houston bus station, then quickly turned away so neither the police nor a motorcycle gang...
Oct 31, 2017
After election, Kenyan opposition leader plans more protests
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday harshly criticized an election rerun in which President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner, saying it should be scrapped in favour...
Oct 31, 2017
Louisiana, nation's top jailer, now trying early releases
BATON ROUGE, La. - Hundreds of inmates are about to get early releases from Louisiana prisons and jails, a milestone in a push to reduce the nation’s highest incarceration rate. The early releas...
Oct 31, 2017
Wendy Williams passes out, collapses on-air during chat show
NEW YORK - Wendy Williams gave viewers a scare Tuesday morning when she passed out on-the-air during a broadcast of her syndicated chat show. Williams was introducing a segment while wearing a Statue ...
Oct 31, 2017
FEMA chief says agency didn't approve Whitefish contract
WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency officials had nothing to do with approving a pricey no-bid contract to restore the power grid in Puerto Rico, the head of the agency told Congress on T...
Oct 31, 2017
Manitoba government rejects call to change how organs donated
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has rejected a proposal that would have made all people in the province organ donors unless they specifically requested not to be. Members of the Progressive Conserv...
Oct 31, 2017
Halifax councillor apologizes for using 'inappropriate' racially charged word
HALIFAX - A Halifax councillor is apologizing for using a racially charged word, the most recent snarl in a string of controversial remarks to roil regional council. Coun. Matt Whitman used the word &...
Oct 31, 2017
Federal government will match charity donations for Rohingya refugees
OTTAWA - The federal government said Tuesday it will match private donations made until the end of this month to help ease Bangladesh’s massive burden in coping with refugees fleeing from Myanma...
Oct 31, 2017
Tories say Harper's letter doesn't change their approach to NAFTA
OTTAWA - Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O’Toole was sitting in the departure lounge at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., last week when his eyes landed on a story he wasn...
Oct 31, 2017
Paris agreement targets leave "alarming gap" to slow climate change: UN report
OTTAWA - Canada has no immediate plans to raise its targets for cutting emissions, despite pressure from the United Nations to step it up or risk the failure of the Paris climate change agreement. In ...
Oct 31, 2017