Category Archives: Canadian Press
Arkansas judge blocks state's revived voter ID law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Arkansas judge on Thursday blocked a voter ID law that’s nearly identical to a measure the state’s highest court found unconstitutional about four years ago. Pulaski...
Apr 26, 2018
Stephen Curry back in full practice mode for Warriors
OAKLAND, Calif. - Stephen Curry resumed full practice with contact and could play for the defending champion Golden State Warriors as soon as Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Saturday night...
Apr 26, 2018
Temple University reconsidering Bill Cosby's honorary degree
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby long served as a leading public face and a key fundraiser for Philadelphia’s Temple University, but his alma mater said Thursday it will reconsider an honorary degree a...
Apr 26, 2018
Former Tory leader Patrick Brown breached integrity rules: Watchdog
TORONTO - The public had a right to know Patrick Brown accepted a loan from a man who would become a candidate for his party, Ontario’s integrity watchdog said after finding the former Progressi...
Apr 26, 2018
Pregnant nurse injured in attack by patient, Nova Scotia union says
HALIFAX - A pregnant nurse was injured this week after being attacked while on duty at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth, her union says. Jason MacLean, president of the Nova Scotia Govern...
Apr 26, 2018
NAFTA talks keeping Freeland in Washington, sends substitute to NATO summit
WASHINGTON - With the NAFTA talks at a critical juncture, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Thursday that she was skipping a summit in Europe to remain at the bargaining table. Free...
Apr 26, 2018
US seeks to extradite 'El Chapo' case suspect from Caribbean
MIAMI - A Canadian known as “Russian Mike” who has been charged in the drug trafficking case involving notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman sought Thursday to ...
Apr 26, 2018
Timeline of recent events in the 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec City
QUEBEC - The sentencing arguments for Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette ended Thursday. Bissonnette, 28, pleaded guilty in March to six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempt...
Apr 26, 2018
How the government hopes to strengthen intellectual property in Canada
OTTAWA - The federal government has unveiled new measures on intellectual property as it seeks to improve Canada’s performance in a critical area of the increasingly important ideas-based econom...
Apr 26, 2018
Reaction to the guilty verdicts for Bill Cosby
Reaction to Bill Cosby’s conviction on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era: “Cosby is guilty. I&...
Apr 26, 2018