Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canadian Jennifer Abel earns two Diving World Series medals
BEIJING - Canada’s Jennifer Abel captured two medals on Friday at the second Diving World Series event of the season. The 27-year-old native of Laval, Que., won bronze in the women’s three...
Mar 08, 2019

SNC-Lavalin's court loss shifts spotlight to Trudeau's new attorney general
OTTAWA - The spotlight in the SNC-Lavalin affair has shifted to rookie Justice Minister David Lametti now that a court has rejected the company’s bid to force the public prosecutor to pursue an ...
Mar 08, 2019
Train service planned for Coachella Valley music festivals
INDIO, Calif. - Transportation officials are working on using Amtrak train service to help alleviate notorious traffic heading to and from the annual Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals in the So...
Mar 08, 2019

Victim's sons tell court that killing of ailing mother was no act of compassion
MONTREAL - Following emotional testimony from the victim’s family members, the Crown and the defence offered vastly different sentencing recommendations Friday for a Montreal man convicted of su...
Mar 08, 2019
Thailand pulls out of 2020 Olympic weightlifting over doping
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Thailand has volunteered to ban itself from Tokyo Olympic Games weightlifting next year because of doping, another blow to a sport whose place on the Olympic program is precarious....
Mar 08, 2019

Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in U.S. history, has been sent to jail for ...
Mar 08, 2019

Montreal Impact look to notch first victory in Houston
MONTREAL - Given the Montreal Impact’s continued struggles on the road, goalkeeper Evan Bush wanted to give his side a leg up - so he probed the opposition. Bush reached out to former teammate D...
Mar 08, 2019
Fate of Kate's pregnancy is centre stage on 'This Is Us'
LOS ANGELES - “This Is Us” routinely brings viewers to tears. Next week, it’s taking them to the theatre. The hit NBC series will air an episode modeled on a one-act play and confine...
Mar 08, 2019

'Simpsons' producers pull iconic Michael Jackson episode
LOS ANGELES - The producers of “The Simpsons” are removing a classic episode that featured the voice of Michael Jackson after HBO aired a documentary in which two men claim they were sexua...
Mar 08, 2019

Trudeau apologizes for government's past mistreatment of Inuit with TB
IQALUIT, Nunavut - James Eetoolook is a 72-year-old tuberculosis survivor among a family of survivors. He and seven of his relatives were stricken with TB, including his mother, sisters and brother, w...
Mar 08, 2019