Category Archives: Canadian Press
New Brunswick premier suspends Speaker amid allegations of harassment
FREDERICTON - The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature has been suspended from the Liberal caucus pending an investigation into allegations of harassment. Premier Brian Gallant announced Chris Col...
Apr 05, 2018
Former fertility doctor accused of impregnating more women with own sperm
OTTAWA - A law firm pursuing a class-action suit against a former Ottawa fertility doctor says it has evidence indicating he fathered 11 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm. Two years...
Apr 05, 2018
Federal, B.C. privacy czars team up to investigate Facebook and AggregateIQ
OTTAWA - The federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners are joining forces to investigate Facebook and Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ - two firms at the centre of an international ...
Apr 05, 2018
Medically assisted suicide becomes legal in Hawaii
HONOLULU - Hawaii became the latest liberal-leaning state to legalize medically assisted suicide Thursday as the governor signed a measure into law allowing doctors to fulfil requests from terminally ...
Apr 05, 2018
Senators fear legal pot will hike number of Canadians barred entry to U.S.
OTTAWA - Meetings with American officials have done nothing to calm the fears of Conservative senators that legalization of marijuana could exponentially increase the number of Canadians barred for li...
Apr 05, 2018
Facebook: Most users may have had public data 'scraped'
NEW YORK - Facebook’s acknowledgement that most of its 2.2 billion members have probably had their personal data scraped by “malicious actors” is the latest example of the social net...
Apr 05, 2018
General orders new review of troubled flight that led to sexual assault charges
OTTAWA - The military’s top soldier has ordered a second investigation into a recent Team Canada trip that resulted in sexual-assault charges against a former NHL player and cast a cloud over th...
Apr 05, 2018
Walmart Canada says it will rehire disabled workers let go last week
MONTREAL - Walmart Canada is backtracking on a controversial decision to withdraw from a program that provided work experience in its Quebec stores to people with disabilities or autism. The decision ...
Apr 05, 2018
Did Trump know about payment to Stormy Daniels? He says no
In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump said he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment his personal attorney had made to the porn actress who alleges she had an...
Apr 05, 2018
Indiana woman finally receives postcard 60 years later
GOSHEN, Ind. - A northern Indiana woman has finally received a postcard that her mother mailed from southern California nearly 60 years ago. The postcard was hand-delivered to Sharon Gongwer of Goshen...
Apr 05, 2018