Category Archives: Canadian Press

Bisons' Iizuka attempting to become first female to play U Sports football
Reina Iizuka is Canadian university football’s best-kept secret. The five-foot-seven, 160-pound defensive back is entering her third year at the University of Manitoba, having been a red-shirted...
Feb 26, 2019

Seinfeld sues California classic car dealer over '58 Porsche
NEW YORK - Jerry Seinfeld sued a California dealer in classic cars Monday, saying the company has left the comedian stranded in a dispute over whether a 1958 Porsche he sold is authentic. Seinfeld sou...
Feb 26, 2019

Singh eyes chance to ramp up pressure on Trudeau with byelection win
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh celebrated his byelection win the same way he rang in winning the NDP leadership race: on a dance floor. “We danced the night away,” Singh said Tuesday morning in an...
Feb 26, 2019

Committee sets time for Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould will finally give her side of the SNC-Lavalin story on Wednesday, breaking almost three weeks of silence that has fuelled the anonymously sourced controversy and shaken t...
Feb 26, 2019
Soldier found dead on New Brunswick base was veteran of Afghanistan, Bosnia
OROMOCTO, N.B. - The Canadian Armed Forces has released the name of a soldier and Afghanistan veteran found dead at New Brunswick’s Gagetown base on Monday. He has been identified as 41 year-old...
Feb 26, 2019
Fed's Powell predicts solid but slower growth in 2019
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress on Tuesday the U.S. economy should keep expanding at a solid, though somewhat slower pace this year. But he warned of growing risks, i...
Feb 26, 2019

House OKs Democrats' bill blocking Trump emergency on wall
WASHINGTON - House Democrats have ignored a veto threat and passed legislation that would stymie President Donald Trump’s bid for billions of extra dollars for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The mov...
Feb 26, 2019
Vatican: Cardinal Pell says he's innocent, but news hurts
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Tuesday insisted on Australian Cardinal George Pell’s right to further defend himself after being convicted of molesting two choirboys in his homeland, but said Pop...
Feb 26, 2019

As Kim's car passes, North Korean defector cries and shouts
HANOI, Vietnam - A tearful North Korean defector shouted “Please, let me go back home!” as a black limousine carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un passed by her in Hanoi on Tuesday. Shi...
Feb 26, 2019
Attacked and powerless, Venezuela soldiers choose desertion
CUCUTA, Colombia - The simple house on a street ridden with potholes in this town on Colombia’s restive border with Venezuela has become a refuge for the newly homeless: 40 Venezuelan soldiers w...
Feb 26, 2019