Category Archives: Canadian Press
Feds to change tax law to allow grandparents to access Canada Child Benefit
OTTAWA - The federal government will make changes to federal law to ensure payments to grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren in Prince Edward Island and other provinces are not clawed ba...
Apr 13, 2018
Kyle Lowry: Raptors need to treat Game 1 against Wizards like a Game 7
TORONTO - A lot of critical fingers pointed in Kyle Lowry’s direction when the Toronto Raptors were swept by Washington in the opening round of the 2015 NBA playoffs. The humiliating exit was a ...
Apr 13, 2018
Quebec school board expresses regret over Jersey Day incident
SAINTE-ADELE, Que. - A Quebec school board is expressing regret over an incident where a student was asked to leave class for wearing a sports jersey in support of the victims of a bus crash involving...
Apr 13, 2018
Police: Woman who drove SUV with family off cliff was drunk
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman was drunk when she drove her large family off a Northern California cliff last month and her wife and several children had large amounts of a drug in their systems that can cau...
Apr 13, 2018
Homan winless, world champion Jones undefeated at Players' Championship
TORONTO - Ottawa’s Rachel Homan remained winless at the Players’ Championship, losing her final round-robin game 8-3 to Scotland’s Eve Muirhead in Friday’s evening draw. Homan ...
Apr 13, 2018
FBI probes Trump lawyer Cohen's personal 'business dealings'
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors revealed on Friday that their probe of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, involved suspected fraud and the attorney’s personal business...
Apr 13, 2018
Father of slain police officer expresses gun bill anger in letter to Goodale
OTTAWA - The father of a police officer who was gunned down in Quebec is angered and disappointed by the Liberal government’s firearms bill, saying there is nothing in the legislation that would...
Apr 13, 2018
Rescue tech who died in accident had chute tangle, lost track of height: report
OTTAWA - A military investigation report says an accident that killed a search and rescue technician near Yorkton, Sask., in March 2017 came after the man’s chute became twisted as he jumped in ...
Apr 13, 2018
Blue Jays place 3B Josh Donaldson on DL with shoulder injury
CLEVELAND - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed third baseman Josh Donaldson on the 10-day disabled with right shoulder inflammation. Donaldson, the AL’s MVP in 2015, is batting .239 with three ho...
Apr 13, 2018
Canada increases oil exports, finding buyers in the U.S. despite shale oil boom
CALGARY - The National Energy Board says Canadian oil exports rose by 6.5 per cent last year to 3.3 million barrels per day despite an increase in light shale oil production in the United States, Cana...
Apr 13, 2018