Category Archives: Canadian Press
'Very intense' storm shuts schools, offices across Atlantic Canada
HALIFAX - A massive and powerful storm pummelled Atlantic Canada on Thursday, shutting down everything from schools to bridges as wind, rain and snow thrashed the region. “This is a very large, ...
Jan 4, 2018
Woodson named 'young people's literature' ambassador
NEW YORK - Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has been named the country’s new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The Library of Congress and two other organizations a...
Jan 4, 2018
Sixty years later, O'Ree marks anniversary of breaking NHL's colour barrier
FREDERICTON - When Willie O’Ree donned a Boston Bruins jersey and jumped onto the ice at the Montreal Forum on Jan. 18, 1958, he had no idea he was making history. Just a decade after Jackie Rob...
Jan 4, 2018
18 killed, about 260 injured in South Africa train crash
JOHANNESBURG - A passenger train carrying people home after the holidays slammed into a truck in rural South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 260 others, authorities s...
Jan 4, 2018
In the news today, Jan. 4
Eight stories in the news for Thursday, Jan. 4 --- FATHER CHARGED IN DEATHS OF B.C. SISTERS The father of two girls who were found dead in a Victoria-area home on Christmas Day has been charged with t...
Jan 4, 2018
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games World Junior Hockey Championship At Buffalo N.Y. Semifinals Canada 7 Czech Republic 2 Sweden 4 U.S. 2 — NHL Calgary 4 Los Angeles 3 Edmonton 2 Anaheim 1 (SO) Montreal 2 Ta...
Jan 4, 2018
Quebecers still have vivid memories of 1998 ice storm
MONTREAL - The freezing drizzle had already been falling for four days when Normand Chaput left his home in St-Hyacinthe, Que., on Jan. 9, 1998. Throughout the inclement weather, the Hydro-Quebec line...
Jan 4, 2018
What consumers should know about the romaine lettuce-linked E. coli outbreak
TORONTO - Since mid-November, dozens of people have become ill and two people have died in Canada and the U.S. due to infection with E. coli 0157:H7, which has been linked in this country to contamina...
Jan 4, 2018
New rules for wood-burning appliances in Montreal, two decades after ice storm
Montreal’s strict, new rules regarding wood-burning appliances are set to kick in this year, two decades after the heating systems regained popularity in the aftermath of the crippling 1998 ice ...
Jan 4, 2018
'Knees together' judge should be able to practise law again: written submission
CALGARY - The lawyer for a former judge who asked why a rape complainant didn’t resist by keeping her knees together is arguing that a “lack of sensitivity” at the time is no reason ...
Jan 4, 2018