Category Archives: Canadian Press
Highly competitive Toronto campaign emerges in light of province's victory
TORONTO - As Toronto prepared for a leaner local government following Ontario’s legal victory over the size of the city’s council, longtime politicians were being pitted against one anothe...
Sep 20, 2018
Despite protests, Russia's anti-doping agency reinstated
The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia’s scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports’ most notorious dopin...
Sep 20, 2018
'I still stand behind my decision to publish,' former editor says of Ghomeshi essay
A former editor at the New York Review of Books says he stands by his decision to publish a controversial essay written by disgraced former radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ian Buruma told Vrij Nederland, a ...
Sep 20, 2018
Lawmaker: US Senate, staff targeted by state-backed hackers
Foreign government hackers continue to target the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides - and the Senate’s security office has refused to defend them, a lawmaker says. Sen. Ro...
Sep 20, 2018
Tennessee Senate candidate says Kavanaugh accuser 'credible'
NASHVILLE - Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen said that the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault “has a very credible story.” But he said the Judi...
Sep 20, 2018
1 death during Florence: A hunter keeping watch on his dogs
KINSTON, N.C. - Hurricane Florence was blowing across eastern North Carolina hours before making landfall, and Bennie Lee Sutton’s hunting beagles were howling in their backyard kennel. So he wa...
Sep 20, 2018
Women supporting Kavanaugh find themselves in storm's centre
NEW YORK - It started as a series of phone calls among old high-school friends and ended up embroiling 65 women in the firestorm over a sexual assault allegation that could shape the Supreme Court. In...
Sep 20, 2018
Under right terms, Kavanaugh accuser may testify after all
WASHINGTON - Christine Blasey Ford may testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown n...
Sep 20, 2018
Bye bye bugs? Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
OXFORD, Pa. - A staple of summer - swarms of bugs - seems to be a thing of the past. And that’s got scientists worried. Pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroa...
Sep 20, 2018
Indian flight returns after passengers ill by pressure loss
NEW DELHI - A Jet Airways flight returned to Mumbai, India’s financial capital, on Thursday after dozens of passengers complained of ear pain and nose bleeding due to the loss in cabin pressure....
Sep 20, 2018