Category Archives: Canadian Press
Even rejected ideas from G7 gender advisory council will see light of day
OTTAWA - Isabelle Hudon has a few rules when she runs a meeting and one of them is to never allow women to sit along the wall - and away from the table. “If there is no chair at the table, then ...
Apr 26, 2018
Senate committee OKs bill to safeguard special counsel
WASHINGTON - Bipartisan legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller now lies in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursda...
Apr 26, 2018
Lawyer: Trump ready for role in raids' evidence review
NEW YORK - Lawyers for President Donald Trump will be back in court Thursday as part of his attempt to limit investigators’ access to records the FBI seized from his personal lawyer, Michael Coh...
Apr 26, 2018
Trump's VA choice bows out in latest Cabinet flame-out
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s White House doctor reluctantly withdrew his nomination to be Veterans Affairs secretary Thursday in the face of accusations of misconduct, the latest embarr...
Apr 26, 2018
Trump says of Comey: 'He's either very sick or very dumb'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump insists he “won’t be involved” in any attempt to interfere with the investigation into Russian election meddling - unless he changes his mind. Tru...
Apr 26, 2018
Funerals set for 3 of 4 slain in the Waffle House shooting
NASHVILLE - Funeral arrangements have been set for three of the four fatal victims of the Waffle House shooting rampage, their deaths mourned as donations poured in Thursday for victims of last weeken...
Apr 26, 2018
Tons of legal marijuana leave regulators awash in data
SALEM, Ore. - To the beat of electronic dance music, men and women inside a slate-grey building harvested marijuana plants festooned with radio-frequency identification tags. In another room, an emplo...
Apr 26, 2018
Mission accomplished? Macron shines in US, troubled at home
PARIS - France’s Emmanuel Macron left Washington looking like a superstar - whether or not he changed President Donald Trump’s mind on staying in Syria, how to contain Iran or anything at ...
Apr 26, 2018
Brazil debates da Silva jailing impact on presidential race
RIO DE JANEIRO - With former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva behind bars, the people of Latin America’s largest nation are pondering how October’s presidential election will ...
Apr 26, 2018
British-Iranian professor held by Iran's Revolutionary Guard
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A British-Iranian university professor who actively campaigns against military action targeting his homeland has been detained in Iran by the country’s hard-line Re...
Apr 26, 2018