Category Archives: Canadian Press
Chinese intelligence officers charged in US aviation hacking
LOS ANGELES - Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to steal information on commercial jet engines, federal prosec...
Oct 30, 2018
Google spinoff to test truly driverless cars in California
SAN FRANCISCO - The robotic car company created by Google is poised to attempt a major technological leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads without a human on hand to take control i...
Oct 30, 2018
O'Rourke: Trump stoking nation's worst pre-election impulses
AUSTIN, Texas - Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke suggested Tuesday night that President Donald Trump floated the idea of using an executive order to end birthright U.S. citizenshi...
Oct 30, 2018
Novelist Steven Galloway files defamation suit over sexual assault allegations
VANCOUVER - The former chair of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia is suing a woman, claiming she falsely accused him of sexual and physical assaults. Steven Galloway&#...
Oct 30, 2018
Mom cries telling B.C. jury about last day she saw young daughter alive in 1978
VANCOUVER - The mother of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared 40 years ago tearfully told a jury Tuesday about the last time she saw her daughter outside Merritt, B.C. Madeline Lanaro said she was driv...
Oct 30, 2018
Actress-writer Waithe: Films fall short of ethnic equality
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood is falling short of ethnic equality despite black-led films including “Black Panther,” actress and award-winning writer Lena Waithe said. There are “a million...
Oct 30, 2018
Tories continue to raise most money, but Liberals close gap as election nears
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal party just scored its best-ever third quarter fundraising result in a non-election year - but still fell $1 million short of the money raked in by the Conservatives. Accor...
Oct 30, 2018
Canadians should get used to idea of 3 per cent interest rates: Poloz
OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz wants Canadians to get used to the idea of three per cent interest rates as the new normal, now that the era of rock-bottom borrowing costs is gradually ...
Oct 30, 2018
Groups gather to discuss spate of suicides in northern Quebec region of Nunavik
MONTREAL - The regional health board serving northern Quebec is repeating calls for action as local officials gather for an emergency meeting this week to discuss a spate of suicides in Nunavik. The n...
Oct 30, 2018
Andrew Scheer says he and Doug Ford are working toward same goals
TORONTO - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer shrugged off suggestions Tuesday that Ontario’s premier was overshadowing him on matters of importance to the national Conservative cause, say...
Oct 30, 2018