Category Archives: Canadian Press
McDonald's pulls radio ad encouraging fast food over museum visits
McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada has apologized and pulled a national radio ad that encouraged people to buy its fast food offerings rather than visit a museum after Canadian museums pushed back...
Jan 12, 2018
Public servants ask federal labour body to declare government broke the law
OTTAWA - The biggest union representing public servants in Canada is seeking damages after the federal government missed a deadline for implementing four collective agreements. The move formalizes a c...
Jan 12, 2018
Global News reporter sues Hamilton police over arrest at crash scene
A Global News journalist who was briefly arrested while covering a fatal crash last year has filed a lawsuit against Hamilton police, alleging an officer used excessive force in an effort to prevent h...
Jan 12, 2018
Texas father charged with murder in death of Indian orphan
DALLAS - The father of a 3-year-old girl adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted on a capital murder charge Friday, nearly three months after the girl’s body was found in a culvert near th...
Jan 12, 2018
B.C. Lions lock-up offensive lineman Antonio Johnson with two-year deal
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have re-signed international offensive lineman Antonio Johnson through the 2019 CFL season. Johnson was eligible to become a free agent in February. He earned starts at both...
Jan 12, 2018
Tougher workplace harassment rules would help protect political staffers: Hajdu
OTTAWA - It is too early to begin claiming the pendulum is in danger of swinging too far the other way when it comes to concerns over sexual misconduct on Parliament Hill, as young political staffers ...
Jan 12, 2018
Edmonton Eskimos re-sign star receiver Derel Walker trough 2018 season
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos have re-signed international wide receiver Derel Walker through the 2018 season. The two-time CFL all-star returned to Edmonton this past season after a brief stint wit...
Jan 12, 2018
Driver, students hurt after school bus hits abandoned trailer in Cape Breton
ENGLISHTOWN, N.S. - A trucker who left a broken-down trailer on a Cape Breton highway was being questioned by police Friday after it was hit by a school bus taking children to class, seriously injurin...
Jan 12, 2018
Kentucky is first to get OK for Medicaid work requirement
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky has become the first state to require many of its Medicaid recipients to work to receive coverage, part of an unprecedented change to the nation’s largest health insura...
Jan 12, 2018
Student guilty of sexual interference would be escorted off campus: university
CALGARY - The University of Calgary says a student who has been convicted of sexual interference would be escorted off campus if he tried to return and a student sexual assault prevention club says it...
Jan 12, 2018