Category Archives: Canadian Press
Caribou herds and habitat continue to decline: federal report
Canada’s woodland caribou herds and the habitat they need continue to decline five years after the provinces agreed to develop strategies to preserve them, a federal study has concluded. And all...
Oct 31, 2017
Budget office predicts higher deficit this year, but sees slow decline coming
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget overseer is predicting a budget deficit in the current fiscal year that’s almost $2 billion higher than was forecast in the government’s fall fiscal updat...
Oct 31, 2017
Judge fines ThyssenKrupp $500K for elevator violations after guilty plea
TORONTO - One of the country’s pre-eminent elevator companies has been fined $500,000 for five violations of Ontario’s safety rules. ThyssenKrupp had pleaded guilty to the offences in Onta...
Oct 31, 2017
Studio cuts ties to director Ratner after harassment report
NEW YORK - Hollywood’s widening sexual harassment crisis has ensnared a prominent film director after six women - including actress Olivia Munn - accused Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct in a L...
Oct 31, 2017
Prisons failing mentally ill, especially women, federal ombudsman says
OTTAWA - Canada’s prison service must find alternatives to locking up inmates, especially women, with serious mental illness, says the federal correctional ombudsman. The Correctional Service of...
Oct 31, 2017
Advocate calls for increased punitive damages in deaths of indigenous women
MEMBERTOU, N.S. - Canada’s legal system fails to attach enough value to the loss of an Indigenous woman’s life, according to an advocate for the family of a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq woman...
Oct 31, 2017
Sexual harassment suit against former Ontario premier David Peterson dismissed
TORONTO - A sexual harassment lawsuit against former Ontario premier David Peterson has been dismissed, his lawyers said Tuesday, noting that the woman who launched the legal action had apologized for...
Oct 31, 2017
Reports: UK police widen investigation into Harvey Weinstein
LONDON - British media reported Tuesday that police have widened their investigation into sexual assault claims against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The Independent newspaper, Press ...
Oct 31, 2017
Official: Florida resident dies of rabies from bat bite
SEBRING, Fla. - Health officials say a Florida resident who was bitten by a bat has died of rabies. Florida Department of Health spokeswoman Mara Gambineri tells Orlando TV station WKMG the victim did...
Oct 31, 2017
She suspected an affair; then she found a secret camera
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Police in Florida say a daughter suspected her mother’s live-in partner was having an affair, so she looked at files under his profile in their shared household computer....
Oct 31, 2017