Category Archives: Canadian Press
California lawmakers push diversity through film tax credit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers passed legislation Monday that puts more conditions on state film tax credits to encourage better sexual harassment reporting and diverse hiring amid revelati...
Jun 19, 2018
Veteran defender Drew Moor back on the field, sees light at end of injury tunnel
TORONTO - Drew Moor back on the field with Toronto FC was a welcome sight Tuesday, proof that the veteran defender is making progress from the quad tear that has sidelined him since the CONCACAF Champ...
Jun 19, 2018
Theft of mammoth proportions: Agency seeks stolen tusk
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal agency wants its wooly mammoth tusk back. The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska on Tuesday asked the public’s help in recovering an approximately 10,000-year-old ...
Jun 19, 2018
Metal singer jailed in wife's murder plot back with band
LOS ANGELES - A heavy metal singer convicted in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his estranged wife has reunited with his Grammy-nominated band and performed with the group in San Diego over the weekend...
Jun 19, 2018
Birthplace of singer, activist Nina Simone to be preserved
TRYON, N.C. - The dilapidated wooden cottage in North Carolina that was the birthplace of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone now has the protection of the National Trust for Historic Preserv...
Jun 19, 2018
Groups file response to government's fight against solitary confinement
VANCOUVER - The head of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says the group is ready to take on the federal government in a dispute over fixing a law that violates the rights of inmates in solitary co...
Jun 19, 2018
Body of missing PhD student found in Lake Ontario in Niagara region
VAUGHAN, Ont. - Police say a Toronto-area PhD student who went missing last month has been found dead in the Niagara region. Officers say local authorities found the body of Zabia Afzal, 30, in Lake O...
Jun 19, 2018
Visits to Montreal's four supervised drug injection sites double since last summer
MONTREAL - Monthly visits to Montreal’s four, supervised drug-injection facilities have more than doubled since they opened last summer and crime rates have not increased in the neighbourhoods t...
Jun 19, 2018
Manitoba judge upholds former law that banned switching political parties
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba law that forbade members of the legislature from switching party caucuses - an action commonly called floor-crossing - did not violate the Charter of Rights, a Court of QueenR...
Jun 19, 2018
Trainer Mark Casse sending three strong contenders to Queen's Plate
TORONTO - Mark Casse will have three real shots at earning a second career Queen’s Plate win. Casse, Canada’s top trainer the last seven years and 10 times overall, will send Plate Trial w...
Jun 19, 2018