Category Archives: Canadian Press
In the news today, April 2
Three stories in the news for Monday, April 2 --- MINISTER SAYS OTTAWA HAS FULFILLED CHILD WELFARE ORDERS Canada’s Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of ...
Apr 2, 2018
Georgette LeBlanc looks to raise profile of parliamentary poet laureate
OTTAWA - Georgette LeBlanc looks around the parliamentary library in the Centre Block and admits she was last in the building when she was in high school. The Quebec-born, Nova Scotian-raised poet wil...
Apr 2, 2018
Ottawa has 'turned a corner' in First Nations child welfare: Philpott
WINNIPEG - Canada’s Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of a 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which said the federal government discrim...
Apr 2, 2018
Canada House on the Gold Coast: 32 beers on tap and almost as many Canuck servers
GOLD COAST, Australia - Canada usually lives large when it comes to its home-away-from-home at the Olympic Games. In 2012, Canada House - part of the Canadian High Commission in London - was designate...
Apr 2, 2018
Kashmir shut by strike, security day after deadly fighting
SRINAGAR, India - A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut down most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, a day after deadly protests and fierc...
Apr 2, 2018
Canadians kick up their heels at Commonwealth Games welcoming ceremony
GOLD COAST, Australia - A beach party broke out Monday as the Maple Leaf was raised at the athletes villages at the Commonwealth Games. The welcoming ceremony for the Canadian team started with the fo...
Apr 2, 2018
Sunday's Games
Sunday’s Games NHL New Jersey 2 Montreal 1 Philadelphia 4 Boston 3 (OT) Nashville 4 Tampa Bay 1 Washington 3 Pittsburgh 1 Anaheim 4 Colorado 3 (OT) — MLB American League Toronto 7 N.Y. Yan...
Apr 1, 2018
Malala Yousafzai ends her 1st Pakistan visit since shooting
ISLAMABAD - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai left Pakistan on Monday, ending a surprise visit to the country, her first since being shot in 2012 by Taliban militants who tried to kill her for...
Apr 1, 2018
Most in Cosby jury pool have made up minds, know of #MeToo
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors and the defence began the difficult task of picking a jury for Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial Monday amid a powerful #MeToo movement that has pierced the consc...
Apr 1, 2018
Taylor Hall scores shorthanded, lifts Devils to 2-1 win over Canadiens
MONTREAL - New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall couldn’t have picked a better time to score his first career short-handed goal. Hall scored the winner in the third period, a short-handed breaka...
Apr 1, 2018