Category Archives: Canadian Press
Newfoundland and Labrador will target 'revenge porn' with new law
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is joining a growing list of provinces targeting so-called revenge porn with new legislation aimed at those who threaten or actually share intimate i...
Apr 16, 2018
Quebec bar files motion calling on province to change law-drafting process
MONTREAL - Quebec’s law society is heading to court to challenge the way the provincial government goes about drafting and passing laws. The Quebec Bar Association, along with the Montreal bar, ...
Apr 16, 2018
A timeline of key events in the case of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur
A timeline of key events in the case of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur based on information released by Toronto police: ___ September 2010 _ Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappears from TorontoR...
Apr 16, 2018
Halifax mall plotters admired Columbine killers, court document reveals
HALIFAX - They started sending online messages to each other on Dec. 21, 2014, an innocuous online chat about coffee and creative writing. But the conversation between Lindsay Souvannarath and James G...
Apr 16, 2018
Former FBI boss Comey to speak at Ottawa conference just before G7 summit
OTTAWA - Former FBI director James Comey, whose new book has provoked angry tweets from President Donald Trump, is scheduled to speak at an Ottawa conference just before the G7 summit in early June. C...
Apr 16, 2018
Possible class action after Freedom of Information web breach in N.S.
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia law firm is investigating the potential for a class action lawsuit following a breach of the province’s freedom-of-information Internet portal affecting thousands of sens...
Apr 16, 2018
Springsteen, mom dance together to celebrate her birthday
ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen treated his 92-year-old mother to an early birthday celebration before Mother Nature spoiled the party. The 68-year-old Boss and his mom, Adele, danced to two son...
Apr 16, 2018
'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74
LOS ANGELES - R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has die...
Apr 16, 2018
DA wants Meek Mill conviction tossed, but he remains jailed
PHILADELPHIA - Rapper Meek Mill’s drug and gun convictions should be thrown out and he should be granted a new trial, prosecutors said in court Monday in an announcement that led his supporters ...
Apr 16, 2018
Linden wins Boston Marathon, 1st US woman since '85
BOSTON - After slogging through just a few miles of icy rain and a near-gale headwind that made her feel like she was running in place, Desiree Linden decided she’d seen enough of the Boston Mar...
Apr 16, 2018