Category Archives: Canadian Press
Wickenheiser says strengthening Olympic hockey bridge behind North Korea trip
CALGARY - Hayley Wickenheiser was conflicted about the unified Korean women’s hockey team at last month’s Winter Olympics. She felt the burden of easing geopolitical tensions had been unfa...
Mar 16, 2018
A media giant in the balance: AT&T antitrust trial kicks off
NEW YORK - On Monday, AT&T squares off against the federal government in a trial that could shape how you get - and how much you pay for - streaming TV and movies. AT&T says it needs to gobble...
Mar 16, 2018
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma to be prosecuted
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president Jacob Zuma will face old charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering, prosecutors announced Friday, deepening the legal woes of a leader whose ten...
Mar 16, 2018
Quebec police chief defends arrest of reporter for alleged harassment
MONTREAL - A Quebec police chief has defended the decision to arrest a reporter after the subject of a story he was working on lodged a complaint of criminal harassment. Radio-Canada said Friday the c...
Mar 16, 2018
Montreal police offficers go door to door in search for missing boy
Montreal police went door to door on Friday as they continued their search for a 10-year-old boy who has been missing since Monday. Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou was last seen when he left his north-end home ...
Mar 16, 2018
US factory output jumped 1.2 per cent in February
WASHINGTON - U.S. factory output jumped last month, led by big gains in the production of cars, computers and furniture. The Federal Reserve said Friday that manufacturing output rebounded 1.2 per cen...
Mar 16, 2018
Maine resident Jesus Christ sends letter to Oprah Winfrey
WATERBORO, Maine - A letter from Jesus Christ might be the affirmation Oprah Winfrey needs to run for the presidency. WGME-TV reports an 83-year-old Maine woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ sa...
Mar 16, 2018
Canadian hockey coach Shannon Miller wins discrimination lawsuit, wants to work
Shannon Miller may have won a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but the former coach of Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team isn’t sure her career can be salvaged. The 54-year-old from M...
Mar 16, 2018
Democrats seek balance between base's demands, election wins
ATLANTA - Pennsylvania’s Conor Lamb and Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, the new miracle men of the Democratic Party, offer a clear model for how to run in Republican territory: Focus on economics, not ...
Mar 16, 2018
In Syria, at least 68 killed in attacks as more people flee
BEIRUT - Syrian government and Russian airstrikes killed at least 46 people in a besieged town outside of Damascus on Friday, while Turkish shelling and attacks on a Kurdish-held town in northern Syri...
Mar 16, 2018