Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ben Affleck posts about substance abuse treatment
LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck says battling addiction is “a lifelong and difficult struggle.” The actor posted on Instagram Thursday that he has completed a 40-day stay at a treatment centre f...
Oct 05, 2018
Post prints empty column for Saudi writer missing in Turkey
ISTANBUL - The Washington Post printed a blank column in its newspaper Friday in solidarity with a Saudi contributor who went missing while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, raising conce...
Oct 05, 2018
Ticats veteran slotback Luke Tasker forever indebted to former coach Austin
Luke Tasker will forever be grateful to Kent Austin. Austin was Tasker’s head coach at Cornell, then gave him another lease on his pro football life by adding him to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats prac...
Oct 05, 2018
Mystery solved? Shipwreck may be oldest found in Lake Erie
TOLEDO, Ohio - Shipwreck hunters who spent eight days this summer unearthing and examining the remains of a schooner in Lake Erie in Ohio think it’s most likely a sailing ship that sank nearly t...
Oct 05, 2018
Still Anonymous: White House hunt for op-ed author fades
WASHINGTON - Remember Anonymous? One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secre...
Oct 05, 2018
Sheriff: Man ambushed officers coming to question adult son
The decorated 74-year-old Vietnam War veteran accused of shooting seven South Carolina law enforcement officers had set an ambush for investigators coming to question his adult son about a child sexua...
Oct 05, 2018
Danny Boyle to gather Britons on beaches to mark end of WWI
LONDON - Filmmaker Danny Boyle is urging thousands of people to gather on British beaches and make silhouettes in the sand on Nov. 11 to mark 100 years since the end of World War I. Sand artists will ...
Oct 05, 2018
Kavanaugh confirmation all but sure after long, bitter fight
WASHINGTON - After weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests, a pair of wavering senators declared Friday they will back Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirm...
Oct 05, 2018
Brazil's Workers' Party likens front-runner to Hitler
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s Workers’ Party is comparing far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to Adolf Hitler in a new video. The video was published Thursday from the party’s Twitter acc...
Oct 05, 2018
Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89
NEW YORK - Dave Anderson, a genteel sports writer whose elegant, descriptive prose won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a columnist for The New York Times, died Thursday. He was 89. He died at an as...
Oct 05, 2018