Category Archives: Canadian Press
Attawapiskat First Nation chief launches personal war on illegal drugs
The chief of Attawapiskat First Nation has launched a personal war on illegal drugs because he says he is tired of waiting for others to deal with a problem that is destroying his small community in n...
Jul 04, 2018
WestJet reviewing baggage policy after customer calls it discriminatory
TORONTO - WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries. The airline currently has a policy that prevents ...
Jul 04, 2018
US Supreme Court Justice receives lifetime award in Israel
JERUSALEM - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a lifetime achievement award Wednesday from a prominent Jewish organization in Israel. Ginsburg cited Holocaust diarist Anne Frank a...
Jul 04, 2018
Former Winnipeg ballet students allege intimate photos sold by photographer
TORONTO - A judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and a photographer who is alleged to have taken intimate photos of students. Lawyer Margaret Wadde...
Jul 04, 2018
Conservative leader rejected caucus calls to kick Maxime Bernier from caucus
OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says he wanted Andrew Scheer to kick the openly defiant Maxime Bernier out of the federal caucus last month, but the Tory leader refused, insisting that his outspoken former...
Jul 04, 2018
American border patrol agents stopping and boarding Canadian vessels: spokesman
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - A little-known cross-border dispute that has simmered between Canada and the United States since the late 1700s is now approaching the boiling point. In the past two weeks, at leas...
Jul 04, 2018
Ontario cancelling cap and trade akin to pulling out of climate framework: feds
OTTAWA - The federal government is interpreting Ontario’s cancellation of its cap-and-trade program as equivalent to withdrawing from Ottawa’s national climate change framework - and is re...
Jul 04, 2018
Sentencing hearing scheduled for Winnipeg man convicted of sending letter bombs
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man convicted of sending letter bombs to his ex-wife and two lawyers will have a sentencing hearing Oct. 3. Guido Amsel appeared briefly in Winnipeg court and says he has once ag...
Jul 04, 2018
Prices and homes listed up, sales down in Metro Vancouver real estate market
VANCOUVER - The supply of homes in Metro Vancouver’s real estate market hit a three-year high as sales dipped below historical averages last month. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver rep...
Jul 04, 2018
Election of new Mexican president adds uncertainty to future of NAFTA talks
OTTAWA - The future of the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations was injected with a new dose of uncertainty with the election of a new president in Mexico on Sunday. Following his overwhel...
Jul 04, 2018