Category Archives: Canadian Press

Former Argos head coach Milanovich one win away from reaching Super Bowl
When interviewing with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Scott Milanovich was asked why he’d want to give up the Toronto Argonauts’ head-coaching job to become the NFL club’s quarterback coa...
Jan 17, 2018
Former child refugee set free as he fights deportation to Somalia
TORONTO - Former Somali child refugee Abdoul Abdi has been released from custody as he continues his fight against deportation to a country he has no connection to. Benjamin Perryman, Abdi’s law...
Jan 17, 2018
Montreal-area city limits erotic businesses in effort to fight sexual exploitation
MONTREAL - In an effort to tackle sexual exploitation, Quebec’s third-largest city adopted a bylaw this week limiting all new, sex-related businesses to one industrial zone. A maximum of five so...
Jan 17, 2018

Whistler role in potential Calgary Olympic bid would be welcome: IOC
CALGARY - An official with the International Olympic Committee says it would welcome a bid by Calgary to hold another Winter Games using some facilities in Whistler, B.C., or elsewhere. Calgary is mul...
Jan 17, 2018
Lawyer says former B.C. government aide 'barely guilty' in ethnic vote scandal
VANCOUVER - A government communications director who pleaded guilty to breach of trust in connection with a plan to win votes from ethnic groups was “an instrument of others” including min...
Jan 17, 2018
Apple banks on tax break to build 2nd campus, hire 20,000
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is planning to build a new corporate campus and hire 20,000 U.S. workers in an expansion driven in part by a tax cut that will enable the iPhone maker to bring an estimated $245 ...
Jan 17, 2018

London Zoo names okapi 'Meghan' to celebrate royal wedding
London Zoo has honoured Prince Harry’s fiancee by naming its newborn okapi after her. The zoo said Wednesday the animal born in early December was named Meghan to celebrate the upcoming wedding ...
Jan 17, 2018

Whittled away: Saskatchewan First Nation sues over land given over to farming
REGINA - A Saskatchewan First Nation is suing the province and the federal government to try to regain some control over traditional land it says has been whittled away by agricultural and industrial ...
Jan 17, 2018

Detroit man awarded $1 million for wrongful conviction
DETROIT - A Detroit man who spent 25 years in prison for murder before proving he was the victim of police misconduct was awarded $1 million on Wednesday under a state program that compensates the wro...
Jan 17, 2018
New trial ordered for sex worker who says she stabbed client in self-defence
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s highest court has ordered a new trial for a sex worker convicted of assault for stabbing a client she said was sexually assaulting her. The woman had been convicted for s...
Jan 17, 2018