Category Archives: Canadian Press

Low uptake for new immigration program in Nova Scotia, numbers reveal
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is lagging on a highly touted initiative aimed at boosting East Coast immigration, filling only a quarter of the province’s available slots last year. Provincial Immigratio...
Jan 11, 2018
Toronto Furies forward Jessica Platt comes out as transgender
Toronto Furies forward Jessica Platt has come out as transgender, making her the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Platt posted a message on Inst...
Jan 11, 2018

U.S. plaintiffs fire back at Khadr defence over damages-award enforcement
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr cannot avoid a huge civil judgment against him by recanting the confession and guilty plea he made before an American military commission, lawyers acting for ...
Jan 11, 2018

Security concerns sink plans for Calgary nudist swim at public pool
CALGARY - An escalating debate over a nudist swim at a public swimming pool has prompted the City of Calgary to cancel the event over concerns about security. “We’ve had a review completed...
Jan 11, 2018
After 18 seasons in Edmonton, Hervey settling in as B.C. Lions general manager
It hasn’t taken Ed Hervey long to get used to his new colours. Hervey became the B.C. Lions general manager Nov. 30, less than eight months after being fired by the Edmonton Eskimos. That ended ...
Jan 11, 2018

Assembly plant in Oakville, Ont., to build revamped Ford Edge, company says
Ford’s revamped Edge SUV will be assembled in a plant in southern Ontario, a move a union official said signals jobs will be secure in the region as the automaker invests in new technology. Ford...
Jan 11, 2018

Soulpepper Theatre Company set to stage its next show after Schultz allegations
TORONTO - The show will go on at the Toronto-based Soulpepper Theatre Company. On Saturday, just over a week after four actresses filed separate lawsuits against the company and its founding artistic ...
Jan 11, 2018
Member of Ontario crime family stalked by multiple people before murder: police
Hamilton police say multiple people using four different vehicles were involved in stalking a member of a notorious Ontario crime family in the days before his murder last year. Homicide detectives sa...
Jan 11, 2018
Rescuers 'searching for a miracle' in California mudslides
MONTECITO, Calif. - More than two full days after mudslides ravaged the coastal town of Montecito, the search for the missing became an increasingly desperate exercise Thursday, with growing doubts ab...
Jan 11, 2018

Team Canada may be missing NHLers but will be long on character in Pyeongchang
A year ago, Canadian forward Wojtek Wolski was in a hospital bed recovering from surgery on a broken neck. Today, he is an Olympian. “I look at the picture of me in the hospital and can’t ...
Jan 11, 2018