Category Archives: Canadian Press
Life sentence issued for murder of Muslim teen in Virginia
FAIRFAX, Va. - A man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping and killing a Muslim teenager in Virginia as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services. The life...
Mar 28, 2019
Ostrich jacket, hard drives in Mueller's trove of evidence
WASHINGTON - Democrats say they want “all of the underlying evidence” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation . But what is all of that evidence? Mueller’s team issue...
Mar 28, 2019
Trade panel: Boeing got unfair US tax break, hurting Airbus
GENEVA - Delivering final word in a nearly 14-year standoff, a World Trade Organization body has ruled that Boeing received an illegal U.S. tax break from Washington state that damaged sales by Europe...
Mar 28, 2019
Top bureaucrat wrote 60-page memo to Trudeau about Mark Norman case, lawyer says
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyer says she wants to see a secret 60-page memo the federal government’s top bureaucrat penned to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about her client̵...
Mar 28, 2019
Abortion-rights group sues Mississippi over 'heartbeat' law
JACKSON, Miss. - An abortion-rights group is asking a federal judge to block a Mississippi law that will ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The ...
Mar 28, 2019
B.C. human rights tribunal rules anti-transgender poster campaign discriminatory
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver trans woman who made a human rights complaint about a poster campaign that called transgenderism an “impossibility” has won her case. Morgane Oger ran as an NDP can...
Mar 28, 2019
AP sources: Mueller report is more than 300 pages long
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report is more than 300 pages long, a Justice Department official and another person familiar with the document said Thursday. ...
Mar 28, 2019
Kawhi Leonard out, OG Anunoby questionable for Raptors in New York
NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard (load management) will sit out Thursday night in New York against the Knicks while fellow forward OG Anunoby (concussion-like symptoms) is questionable. L...
Mar 28, 2019
Supreme Court stresses jail should be 'last resort' for people awaiting trial
OTTAWA - Making an accused person wait in jail before trial should be the exception, not the rule, the Supreme Court of Canada says in a decision that affirms a key legal safeguard intended to ensure ...
Mar 28, 2019
3 Saudi women's rights activists temporarily released
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Three Saudi women were granted temporary release from prison on Thursday, nearly a year after they and other women’s rights activists were detained by security forc...
Mar 28, 2019