Category Archives: Canadian Press
Halifax jail conversion will see fewer barriers between inmates, guards
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s largest jail is removing barriers between guards and prisoners, aiming to decrease violence at the 17-year-old facility. Officers at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional ...
May 15, 2018
Quebec restaurant owners want labour law reform to include tip-sharing mechanism
MONTREAL - An association representing Quebec restaurant owners is calling on the province to include a tip-sharing mechanism in the labour code to address a wage gap between waiters and kitchen staff...
May 15, 2018
Tom Wolfe, pioneering 'New Journalist,' dead at 88
NEW YORK - Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wi...
May 15, 2018
Kellogg latest US brand to ditch crisis-wracked Venezuela
MARACAY, Venezuela - Kellogg Co. closed operations in Venezuela and laid off 300 workers Tuesday at a time of widespread hunger in the crisis-wracked South American nation. The Battle Creek, Michigan-...
May 15, 2018
Toronto police end search of accused serial killer Bruce McArthur's apartment
TORONTO - An exhaustive and exhausting four-month search of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur’s apartment has concluded, Toronto police announced Tuesday, saying their probe of the unit where...
May 15, 2018
German court dismisses comic's appeal over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - A German court has dismissed a television comedian’s appeal of a ruling that prohibits him from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
May 15, 2018
US intensifies pressure on Iran, sanctioning central banker
WASHINGTON - The United States intensified its financial pressure on Iran on Tuesday, slapping anti-terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing busi...
May 15, 2018
Wrestling, basketball in the spotlight as nominees for BLG awards announced
TORONTO - Hec Crighton Trophy winner Ed Ilnicki and two-sport athlete Temitope Ogunjimi are among the eight nominees for the 2018 BLG Awards, given annually to the top male and female U Sports athlete...
May 15, 2018
Ontario police sound alarm over perceived lack of funds for pot legalization
TORONTO - Ontario’s chiefs of police are again sounding alarm bells about the impending legalization of recreational cannabis, saying federal funding for police operations may not go far enough ...
May 15, 2018
Trudeau tells Trump: We can have a NAFTA deal right now, if you want it
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That high-l...
May 15, 2018