Category Archives: Canadian Press
Jury finds Iraqi teen guilty of planting London subway bomb
LONDON - A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group was convicted of attempted murder on Friday for planting a home-made bomb on a London subway train...
Mar 16, 2018
Indian singer convicted of trafficking jobseekers to America
NEW DELHI - A popular Indian pop singer was convicted of human trafficking and cheating Friday by a court that found he took money to pretend people were in his performance troupe so they could get jo...
Mar 16, 2018
Dead man walking: Court rejects Romanian's claim he's alive
BUCHAREST, Romania - Constantin Reliu learned in January that he was dead. After more than 20 years of working as a cook in Turkey, the 63-year-old returned home to Romania to discover that his wife h...
Mar 16, 2018
N.L. polar bears damage snowmobiles, hot tub as they head north early
ST. ANTHONY, N.L. - East Coast polar bears have begun their annual trek north early, and despite a plethora of sightings police say they’ve been relatively trouble-free - give or take a damaged ...
Mar 16, 2018
Babey, Canada to face archrival Americans for first time in a Paralympic final
GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - Ken Babey left the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology after 27 years in search of something new and different. The 63-year-old has found that with Canada’s ...
Mar 16, 2018
Canadian biathlete captures elusive gold, winning 15K race at Paralympics
PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - After Mark Arendz missed the top of the Paralympic medal podium four years ago in Sochi, he harnessed that frustration in every training session. The 28-year-old from...
Mar 16, 2018
Vanishing Vero? Fading hype for social media fad shows fickle nature of Internet
TORONTO - It seems like just yesterday that the Internet was overtaken with viral hype over Vero, a new social network that promised to right all the frustrating wrongs of the well-entrenched leaders ...
Mar 16, 2018
In the news today, March 16
Five stories in the news for Friday, March 16 --- PATRICK BROWN WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION JUNE 7 Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown will not be able to run in his home rid...
Mar 16, 2018
No way to know if debt to income ratio has climbed too high: federal officials
OTTAWA - With a popular measure that shows Canadians’ soaring debt remains in record-breaking territory, the federal government has acknowledged internally there’s no way of knowing whethe...
Mar 16, 2018
B.C. woman ticketed after complaining to RCMP about student driver
WHISTLER, B.C. - A woman in British Columbia has been fined nearly $500 for traffic violations after she reported another motorist’s driving to police. Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes says Whistler RCMP r...
Mar 16, 2018