Category Archives: Canadian Press

Outpouring of support after children's deaths: 'Everyone is pulling together'
HALIFAX - There is a growing outpouring of support as Canadians look for ways to express their grief and help after the Halifax house fire that killed seven children and left their father in critical ...
Feb 21, 2019

Tony Clement returns to Parliament from 'dark valley' following sexting scandal
OTTAWA - MP Tony Clement is breaking his social media silence for the first time since a sexting scandal forced him to out of the Conservative Party. Clement made his first post to Instagram Wednesday...
Feb 21, 2019

Police: Texas man confessed in hammer death of daughter, 2
ORANGE, Texas - A Southeast Texas man accused of bludgeoning his 2-year-old daughter to death with a hammer was naked and blood-stained when he told police officers he had killed the toddler, accordin...
Feb 21, 2019
Fendi honours Lagerfeld and fashion's 'longest love story'
MILAN - Fendi paid understated tribute Thursday to Karl Lagerfeld, who died this week and was the Rome-based fashion house’s creative director for 54 years. The fashion house said in notes for i...
Feb 21, 2019

B.C. skip Wark an unexpected qualifier for championship round at Scotties
SYDNEY, N.S. - Sarah Wark’s curling team from British Columbia isn’t used to cross-country travel, arena ice, top-flight competition or the national spotlight. You wouldn’t know it b...
Feb 21, 2019
Feds promise $10 million for housing for troubled Cat Lake First Nation
The Canadian government is promising more than $10 million to build new homes, repair others, and put portables in place for a remote Indigenous community in northern Ontario where substandard mould-i...
Feb 21, 2019
US home sales tumbled 1.2 per cent in January
WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales fell 1.2 per cent in January to their worst pace in more than three years, as persistent affordability problems have put a harsh chill in the real estate market. The Natio...
Feb 21, 2019

Ex-'Idol' contestant to live with parents before drug trial
NORFOLK, Va. - A former “American Idol” and “Fear Factor” contestant who was arrested last year in Virginia with nearly 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms) of fentanyl will be allowed to ...
Feb 21, 2019

Canadian MMA star Georges St-Pierre says he wanted to retire at top of his game
MONTREAL - Canada’s Georges St-Pierre said Thursday that he’s leaving mixed martial arts at the top of his game, expressing few regrets as he formally announced his exit from the sport. Th...
Feb 21, 2019

Wilson-Raybould wasn't pressured, is free to talk, top bureaucrat says
OTTAWA - Canada’s top bureaucrat launched a vigorous defence Thursday of the government’s handling of the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, bluntly declaring allegations of political in...
Feb 21, 2019