Category Archives: Canadian Press
Black Lives Matter award spotlights Australia racial issues
SYDNEY, Australia - The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Black Lives Matter movement for its work highlighting American race issues is being hailed by local activists as a progressive step, b...
Oct 31, 2017
Netflix exploring 'House of Cards' spinoff amid Spacey flap
LOS ANGELES - Netflix is exploring a “House of Cards” spinoff as the show’s final season nears amid controversy surrounding star Kevin Spacey. The streaming channel, which reportedly...
Oct 31, 2017
Sanders calls NY mayor antidote to Trump's 'ugly' leadership
NEW YORK - Bernie Sanders, the Vermont U.S. senator who stoked liberal passions nationwide as a Democratic candidate in last year’s presidential contest, stepped into New York politics for a day...
Oct 31, 2017
Indigenous candidate draws surprising support in Mexico
OVENTIC, Mexico - This is what a grass-roots campaign looks like in a country where politics has always been dominated by big spending, corrupt politicians. First of all, almost nobody calls Maria de ...
Oct 31, 2017
Trump, first lady welcome ghosts, goblins on Halloween eve
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dressed up as himself, complete with his trademark red tie, for his first Halloween in the White House. Trump and first lady Melania Trump greeted some of the 6,000...
Oct 31, 2017
Tech companies find more signs of Russian election activity
WASHINGTON - Major tech companies plan to tell Congress Tuesday that they have found additional evidence of Russian activity on their services surrounding the 2016 U.S. election. Facebook, for instanc...
Oct 31, 2017
Tokyo police find multiple bodies in apartment, arrest man
Tokyo police have arrested a man after finding “multiple” dismembered bodies in coolers in his apartment in a city southwest of the capital. The 27-year-old suspect, Takahiro Shiraishi, co...
Oct 31, 2017
Elon Musk tweets photo of LA-area transport tunnel
HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Billionaire Elon Musk has released a photograph of a tunnel he’s building under a Los Angeles suburb to test a novel transportation concept for a system that would move peopl...
Oct 31, 2017
SKorea, China move to resolve disputes and hold summit talks
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea and China announced Tuesday that they will work to improve their relationship, which has been badly strained by the deployment of an American missile defence sy...
Oct 31, 2017
Burberry's Christopher Bailey to leave iconic British brand
LONDON - Designer Christopher Bailey, who was replaced as Burberry chief executive earlier this year, will leave the British brand in 2018, ending a 17-year stint in which he helped transform a compan...
Oct 31, 2017