Category Archives: Canadian Press
Flooded-out rivers continue to threaten New Brunswick
FREDERICTON - As flood waters in Fredericton began to show some signs of relief Sunday, the owner of a popular craft brewery on the banks of the Saint John River was anxious to assess damage and begin...
Apr 29, 2018
Anxiety, fear and grief normal at this stage for van attack witnesses: experts
TORONTO - Konstantin Goulich had only travelled steps from his apartment building before he saw the first dead body. The second one lay a block or two to the south. Nearby lay a third, draped like the...
Apr 29, 2018
B.C.'s dispute over bitumen control likely to end up in Supreme Court: lawyers
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government’s previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mou...
Apr 29, 2018
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. T...
Apr 29, 2018
'In Toronto ... we don't run away:' thousands mourn van attack victims at vigil
TORONTO - The site of a deadly van attack was transformed into a place of mourning Sunday evening, as the streets of north Toronto echoed with thousands of people singing O Canada at a vigil for the v...
Apr 29, 2018
Central Americans will seek asylum at southern US border
TIJUANA, Mexico - U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that travelled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation fr...
Apr 28, 2018
Trump gives thumbs-down to comic who roasted his spokeswoman
WASHINGTON - The reviews are in: President Donald Trump gave a thumbs-down Sunday to the comedian who roasted his chief spokeswoman at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, ...
Apr 28, 2018
Couture's goal in 2OT lifts Sharks past Vegas in Game 2
LAS VEGAS - Two days after opening the second round with their worst game of the playoffs, the San Jose Sharks responded with a gritty performance. Logan Couture’s second goal of the game, on th...
Apr 28, 2018
Fruit's pungent smell mistaken for gas leak, prompts panic
MELBOURNE, Australia - The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building. Specialist crews wear...
Apr 28, 2018
Benfeito, Zsombor-Murray win diving gold at World Series event in Montreal
MONTREAL - Veteran Meaghan Benfeito and prodigy Nathan Zsombor-Murray won the mixed 10-metre synchro platform on Saturday in front of a roaring home crowd at the FINA Diving World Series event in Mont...
Apr 28, 2018