Category Archives: Canadian Press
Liberals pledge $253 million to undo Tory-era changes to benefits tribunal
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are promising to spend more than $250 million to revamp the body Canadians turn to with disputes over access to federal benefits, partially restoring the system that exis...
Mar 21, 2019
'I'm a little numb:' Killer of B.C. gas station attendant Grant De Patie dies
BLIND BAY, B.C. - The mother of a British Columbia gas station attendant dragged to death under a vehicle more than a decade ago, says she is “numb” to learn her son’s killer has die...
Mar 21, 2019
Scripts from 'Dick Van Dyke Show' to be digitally preserved
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Hollywood producer Carl Reiner and the National Comedy Center say they’re working together to digitally preserve Reiner’s collection of scripts from the 1960’s R...
Mar 21, 2019
First artificial intelligence Google Doodle features Bach
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google is celebrating composer Johann Sebastian Bach with its first artificial intelligence-powered Doodle. Thursday’s animated Google Doodle shows the composer playing a...
Mar 21, 2019
Police investigating after pot-laced brownies served at lunch for seniors
A monthly community lunch for a group of Ontario seniors took a strange turn this week after many attendees got sick from consuming cannabis-laced brownies, provincial police said Thursday. Const. Mil...
Mar 21, 2019
Ferry packed with Iraqis celebrating holiday sinks; 94 die
MOSUL, Iraq - A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year and Mother’s Day capsized in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing nearly 100 people, i...
Mar 21, 2019
Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro finish seventh in pairs
SAITAMA, Japan - Canada’s Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro finished in seventh in pairs on Thursday at the world figure skating championships. Moore-Towers, of St. Catharines, Ont., and...
Mar 21, 2019
Canada's Chelsea Carey improves to .500 with win over Russia at women's worlds
SILKEBORG, Denmark - Chelsea Carey’s Canadian rink stayed in the playoff hunt with a 9-6 win over Russia’s Alina Kovaleva on Thursday at the world women’s curling championship. The C...
Mar 21, 2019
Residents fret about chemical plant fire, despite assurances
HOUSTON - Kristin Crump and her two kids put damp cloths over their mouths on Thursday for the short walk from their suburban Houston front door to their car, defying an order to remain inside because...
Mar 21, 2019
'Brace ourselves': Cyclone death toll tops 600 in Africa
BEIRA, Mozambique - With the flooding easing in parts of cyclone-stricken Mozambique on Friday, fears are rising that the waters could yield up many more bodies. The confirmed number of people killed ...
Mar 21, 2019