Category Archives: Canadian Press
Grammy-nominated Ontario conductor facing sexual misconduct allegations
TORONTO - The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir says it has placed its Grammy-nominated conductor Noel Edison on a personal leave of absence while it investigates allegations of sexual misconduct. In a joint ...
Mar 2, 2018

JR Smith tosses soup at assistant; Cavs ladle out 1-game ban
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - Chicken noodle or tomato? J.R. Smith didn’t serve up any explanation. Cleveland’s mercurial shooting guard declined an interview request Friday, a day after the Cavali...
Mar 2, 2018

Top general appoints third acting deputy as suspended admiral remains in limbo
OTTAWA - Canada’s top soldier appears to be keeping the seat warm for the possible return of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, who was suspended last year as the military’s second-in-command becau...
Mar 2, 2018

'Makes no sense': Trudeau sounds alarm bell as U.S. inches toward tariff war
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau describes it as baffling that the United States might be on the verge of using national security as an excuse to impose heavy tariffs on Canadian steel and a...
Mar 2, 2018
2nd Spanish rapper jailed, fined for praising terror groups
MADRID - A Spanish court has sent a second rapper in two weeks to prison for praising terror groups, encouraging violence and insulting the Spanish Crown and state institutions, including the police. ...
Mar 2, 2018
'I Am Nobody,' a story of sex abuse survival and the 'murder of a child's soul'
OTTAWA - Greg Gilhooly vividly remembers the night he decided to kill himself. He clambered up on a bridge in the bedroom community of Oakville, Ont., one summer night in 2008 and contemplated the plu...
Mar 2, 2018
Its population shrinking, Newfoundland and Labrador aims to lure back diaspora
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Bill Hodder says he would leave Calgary to move back to Newfoundland and Labrador “in a heartbeat.” He loved growing up in Churchill Falls, the small company town ...
Mar 2, 2018
More than 20 ex-Bloc Quebecois MPs call on Martine Ouellet to quit in open letter
MONTREAL - More than 20 former Bloc Quebecois MPs called on party leader Martine Ouellet to step down Friday, in a letter published in a Montreal newspaper accusing her of being intransigent and weake...
Mar 2, 2018
Time's Up will be a part of Oscar show, but no dress code
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - The organizers of Time’s Up say the movement to eradicate discrimination in the workplace will have a presence at Sunday’s Oscar show, but there are no plans for a...
Mar 2, 2018
Avalanche kills 4 skiers in France; guide questioned
PARIS - Four skiers were killed and another injured in an avalanche in the French Alps on Friday and their guide was held for questioning, authorities said. The group of six people was on a ski tourin...
Mar 2, 2018