Category Archives: Canadian Press
Plan to bring grieving mother's relatives to Halifax 'moving quickly'
HALIFAX - Federal officials are closer to bringing as many as 10 relatives of a grieving Syrian refugee to Nova Scotia, as Halifax residents prepared to gather Saturday for the funeral of her seven ch...
Feb 22, 2019
Allegations against son led to Time's Up CEO's resignation
LOS ANGELES - The gender equality initiative Time’s Up says its president and CEO resigned because of sexual misconduct allegations against her son. The group on Friday issued a statement explai...
Feb 22, 2019
Trump vows veto as Democrats try to block emergency order
WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote next week to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, acce...
Feb 22, 2019
Celebrities, athletes, others accused of lying to the public
CHICAGO - Actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in Chicago in January in a celebrity scandal that has captured attention online and in the media. Smollett is...
Feb 22, 2019
Defence lawyer raises new questions about timing of Richard Oland's killing
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A tense cross-examination of the final prosecution witness at the Dennis Oland murder trial has raised new questions about the time Richard Oland was killed. John Ainsworth, the own...
Feb 22, 2019
Wintour honours Lagerfeld; Bottega Veneta shows new direction
MILAN - Anna Wintour paid tribute Friday to Karl Lagerfeld’s generosity and sense of humour as she presented a new fashion exhibition. Elsewhere in Milan, Versace unveiled its first womenswear c...
Feb 22, 2019
Powerful 7.5-magnitude quake hits southern Ecuador
LIMA, Peru - A very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday close to the country’s border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casu...
Feb 22, 2019
Prime Minister talks about addressing 'anxiety' in Newfoundland visit
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed the economic importance of supporting research and innovation in a time of economic uncertainty as he wrapped up a East Coast tour in St...
Feb 22, 2019
'Can be justified:' Regulator gives conditional OK to Trans Mountain expansion
CALGARY - Battle lines over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were already being redrawn Friday after the National Energy Board gave its conditional endorsement to the project. The federal energy ...
Feb 22, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 22
Four stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 22 --- REPORT WON’T SETTLE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE BATTLE An environmental group says it expects the National Energy Board to again approve the Trans Mo...
Feb 22, 2019