Category Archives: Canadian Press

Liberals urged to follow U.S. jurisdictions to expunge cannabis records
OTTAWA - The Liberal government should follow the lead of American jurisdictions that have moved to erase criminal records for simple cannabis possession, says NDP justice critic Murray Rankin. In lat...
Mar 15, 2019

Team Jacobs and longtime third Ryan Fry to part ways at end of curling season
Ryan Fry’s arrival on Team Brad Jacobs seven years ago helped push the rink to curling’s greatest heights. His departure will come at the end of a season that included significant challeng...
Mar 15, 2019

Supreme Court rules 'belief' requirement in child-luring law is unconstitutional
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a provision of the country’s law forbidding the luring of children via the internet is unconstitutional and is ordering a new trial for a Toronto-area m...
Mar 15, 2019
Man United gets Barcelona in Champions League quarterfinals
NYON, Switzerland - A new generation of Manchester United players will have to get through Barcelona to win the Champions League. And Lionel Messi will still be there. United was drawn Friday to face ...
Mar 15, 2019
Browns' Kareem Hunt banned 8 games by NFL for 'altercations'
CLEVELAND - Kareem Hunt promises to change. The NFL will hold him to his word. The league suspended the Cleveland Browns running back for eight games on Friday for two “physical altercations,...
Mar 15, 2019
Mosque shooter a white nationalist seeking revenge
SYDNEY, Australia - The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 49 people dead on Friday tried to make a few things clear in the manifesto he left behind: He is a 2...
Mar 15, 2019
US industrial production rose just 0.1 per cent in February
WASHINGTON - U.S. industrial production rose a slight 0.1 per cent in February, as an increase in utilities and mining offset the second straight monthly drop in manufacturing. The Federal Reserve sai...
Mar 15, 2019

US bars entry to International Criminal Court investigators
WASHINGTON - The United States will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or...
Mar 15, 2019
Bangladesh cricketers narrowly avoid mosque shootings
Members of the Bangladesh cricket team had just arrived by bus at Masjid Al Noor mosque for Friday afternoon prayers when they heard gunshots. Had they arrived a few minutes earlier they would have be...
Mar 15, 2019
Russia's doping ban from Paralympics ends, with conditions
MOSCOW - Russia returned to the Paralympics on Friday, though athletes face extra drug tests ahead of next year’s games in Tokyo. The International Paralympic Committee formally lifted Russia...
Mar 15, 2019