Category Archives: Canadian Press

Trump wants California to pay back billions for bullet train
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California’s high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 b...
Feb 19, 2019
Canadian teenager Auger-Aliassime shocks No. 16 Fognini at Rio Open
RIO DE JANEIRO - Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 upset of second-seed Fabio Fognini on Tuesday at the Rio Open tennis tournament. Fognini, ranked No. 16 in the world, is t...
Feb 19, 2019

NEB rejects call to expand scope of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion review
CALGARY - The National Energy Board is rejecting a call made by an environmental group last month to greatly expand the scope of its reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Stand.ear...
Feb 19, 2019
Detroit Council rejects car stunt due to Confederate flag
DETROIT - The Detroit City Council has banned a hot rod and custom car show from allowing a stunt jump to take place because some of the participating vehicles have carried Confederate imagery. The De...
Feb 19, 2019

Canada's bobsleigh team races World Cup on Calgary home track facing closure
CALGARY - Canada’s skeleton and bobsled teams will race a World Cup on their home track under a cloud of uncertainty. Calgary’s 33-year-old sliding track, built for the 1988 Winter Olympic...
Feb 19, 2019

DPAs: Meet the legal tool central to the Prime Minister's Office controversy
OTTAWA - Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin sought to be the first firm to avoid criminal proceedings by negotiating a “remediation agreement” - using a new legal tool that eit...
Feb 19, 2019

Speaker apologizes for apparent racial profiling incident on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan has apologized for an apparent case of racial profiling on Parliament Hill, saying all who visit the precinct must be treated with fairness, dignity and r...
Feb 19, 2019

Toronto Eaton Centre shooter found guilty of two counts of manslaughter
TORONTO - A man who said his post-traumatic stress disorder prompted him to open fire inside Toronto’s Eaton Centre more than six years ago was found guilty Tuesday of manslaughter in the deaths...
Feb 19, 2019

Benetton makes its Milan runway debut with Lagerfeld tribute
Milan Fashion Week promised to be a running tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, who died Tuesday as collateral events got unde way. French designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac, who made his debut as creative d...
Feb 19, 2019
Canadians Schnur, Polansky suffer first-round eliminations at Delray Beach
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Canadians Brayden Schnur and Peter Polansky suffered first-round eliminations Tuesday at the Delray Beach Open. Polansky, from Thornhill, Ont., put up a fight in the second set be...
Feb 19, 2019