Category Archives: Canadian Press
Van crashes into fans at Dutch festival: 1 dead, 3 injured
AMSTERDAM - A van ran into a small group of pop music fans near a popular festival in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring three others before fleeing the scene Monday. A suspect turned hi...
Jun 18, 2018
British police: 3 men struck dead by train in south London
LONDON - Three young men have died after being struck by a train in south London, British Transport Police said Monday. Police said they were trying to determine the details about the deaths at the Lo...
Jun 18, 2018
Bus crash in Poland kills 2 retirees, injures 27 others
WARSAW, Poland - Two people have been killed and at least 27 others injured when a bus carrying retirees on a seaside holiday veered off the road and into a grassy ditch in central Poland, officials s...
Jun 18, 2018
Audi CEO detained in diesel emissions case
BERLIN - German authorities on Monday detained the chief executive of Volkswagen’s Audi division, Rupert Stadler, as part of a probe into the manipulation of emissions controls. The move is an e...
Jun 18, 2018
Liberals need to go in order to clean up Quebec politics: corruption whistleblower
MONTREAL - The Liberals must be defeated in October’s election in order to properly clean up Quebec politics, says a former star witness in the province’s corruption inquiry. Most of the p...
Jun 18, 2018
Collection featuring Group of Seven paintings donated to University of Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess spent a lifetime following her passion. A lifelong educator and art collector, the Order of Canada recipient bequeathed a collection worth as much as...
Jun 18, 2018
Indigenous protesters in Washington declare Trans Mountain won't be built
VANCOUVER - Cedar George-Parker remembers the moment he decided to devote his life to defending Indigenous people and their traditional territories. It was the one-year anniversary of a shooting at hi...
Jun 18, 2018
In the news today, June 18
Four stories in the news for Monday, June 18 --- REPORT DETAILS CHILD POVERTY IN ALL FEDERAL RIDINGS Forty per cent of the children in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s downtown Toronto riding liv...
Jun 18, 2018
Spanish king's brother-in-law begins prison term for graft
MADRID - The brother-in-law of Spain’s King Felipe VI has begun serving a nearly six-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, Spanish prison authorities said Monday. An official with the Interio...
Jun 18, 2018
A look at the federal ridings with the highest, and lowest child poverty rates
OTTAWA - A national anti-poverty group has broken down the child poverty rates in each of the 338 federal ridings. Below are the 10 ridings with the highest, and lowest child poverty rates in the coun...
Jun 17, 2018