Category Archives: Canadian Press
Uber to pay $245 million to settle Waymo's theft allegations
SAN FRANCISCO - Uber is paying $245 million to Google’s self-driving car spinoff to end a legal brawl that aired out allegations of a sinister scheme that tore apart the once-friendly companies....
Feb 9, 2018
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan won't seek re-election
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan announced Friday he would skip another uphill climb to re-election and retire from his northeastern Minnesota congressional seat, leaving a wide-open race ...
Feb 9, 2018
Danish prince leaves Olympics as father's condition worsens
COPENHAGEN - Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik left the Winter Olympics in South Korea on Friday to rush home because the condition of his father - the French-born husband of Queen Margrethe - has...
Feb 9, 2018
Families say Quebec's police watchdog leaves them out of deadly shooting probes
MONTREAL - Eight months after their 27-year-old son Noam was fatally shot by Montreal police following a car chase, Jacob and Rachel Cohen still have more questions than answers about why he died. Sin...
Feb 9, 2018
Unseasonably early daffodils prompt wish for cold weather on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA - As residents in parts of British Columbia dig out from recent heavy snowfalls and think fondly of spring, a farmer on southern Vancouver Island is cursing that region’s mild weather a...
Feb 9, 2018
Mother blasts high school's response to multiple sexual assault allegations
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland mother says the school system re-victimized her daughter and at least two other girls by allowing a male student who allegedly sexually assaulted them to briefl...
Feb 9, 2018
Supreme Court sides with CBC in publication ban case
OTTAWA - The CBC should not have been ordered to remove stories identifying a murdered Alberta girl from its online archives, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The high court made the 9-0 decisio...
Feb 9, 2018
Ex-Virginia Tech student pleads no contest in girl's killing
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through so...
Feb 9, 2018
Florida woman: Airline told me to flush pet hamster
MIAMI - A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down an airport toilet because the emotional support rodent wasn’t allowed to fly with her. The Miami Herald reports before ...
Feb 9, 2018
Former MP Stoffer apologizes five times for his 'touchy' behaviour
HALIFAX - Former New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer issued a series of public apologies Friday for behaviour he acknowledged was perceived as demeaning or inappropriate, saying he never intended to insult ...
Feb 9, 2018