Category Archives: Canadian Press
Dems accuse GOP official of 'amnesia' on Trump vulgarity
WASHINGTON - Republicans struggled to get their stories straight Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary became the latest GOP official to offer an inconclusive version o...
Jan 16, 2018
Ex-doctor's victims recount sex abuse as young gymnasts
LANSING, Mich. - One after one, gymnasts and other victims of a disgraced former sports doctor stepped forward in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday to recount the sexual abuse and emotional trauma he infli...
Jan 16, 2018

4 law officers shot in South Carolina, 1 critically hurt
YORK, S.C. - A man who was wanted for beating his wife ambushed and shot three SWAT officers searching for him in woods in South Carolina, leaving one deputy “hanging on to life,’ a sherif...
Jan 16, 2018
Prosecutor tells hearing plan to get ethnic votes backfired for B.C. Liberals
VANCOUVER - A plan to win ethnic votes in British Columbia involved a “cynical purpose” with no aim to legitimately engage minority groups, says a special prosecutor at a sentencing hearin...
Jan 16, 2018

Alberta legislature member sorry for saying Indigenous people disengaged
EDMONTON - An Alberta legislature member is apologizing for saying Indigenous people don’t tend to vote and when “these people” do engage in politics they only want to talk to the pr...
Jan 16, 2018

Panama Hotel votes to drop Trump - but his company won't go
WASHINGTON - The owners of a Trump-branded hotel in Panama sued President Donald Trump’s family-owned company in federal court Tuesday, alleging that the namesake business committed mismanagemen...
Jan 16, 2018

North Korea scoffs at Trump's 'nuclear button' tweet
TOKYO - North Korea’s state-run media say U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet about having a bigger nuclear button than leader Kim Jong Un’s is the “spasm of a lunatic.” ...
Jan 16, 2018

Outlaw motorcycle gangs growing in Halifax area, more officers needed: RCMP
HALIFAX - Efforts by outlaw motorcycle gangs to expand in the Halifax area have prompted an RCMP request for more front-line officers. RCMP Insp. Robert Doyle said it’s clear the gangs “wa...
Jan 16, 2018
Lifelike robots made in Hong Kong meant to win over humans
HONG KONG - David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become “super-intelligent genius machines” that might help solve some of mankind’s most challenging p...
Jan 16, 2018
New US Embassy criticized by Trump opens in London
LONDON - The new U.S. Embassy in London, criticized last week by President Donald Trump as too expensive and poorly located, opened its doors to the public Tuesday for the first time. The gleaming emb...
Jan 16, 2018