Category Archives: Canadian Press
The Year of #MeToo: A scoop, a tweet, and then a reckoning
NEW YORK - It began with a news story, and then a tweet, and suddenly it seemed like everything had changed overnight. 2017 will forever be known as the Year of the Reckoning. Or, more precisely, the ...
Dec 19, 2017
Canadian Duvernay-Tardif looking to help Chiefs earn another AFC West title
It’s been a streaky 2017 NFL season for Canadian Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and the Kansas Chief Chiefs. Kansas City (8-6) opened with five straight wins before losing four consecutive games and si...
Dec 19, 2017
Environmentalists criticize Alberta plan to help endangered woodland caribou
EDMONTON - Alberta’s draft plan to help threatened woodland caribou recover in 15 different ranges prompted immediate criticism from environmental groups. The plan is in response to a federal de...
Dec 19, 2017
Canada proposes to limit, not ban, use of pesticides that kill bees
OTTAWA - Canada doesn’t want to issue a blanket ban on certain pesticides which environmental groups say are killing everything from honey bees to earthworms. Instead, Health Canada’s Pest...
Dec 19, 2017
12 reported dead as foreign tourist bus crashes in Mexico
MEXICO CITY - At least 12 people died when a bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early Tuesday, officials said. Seven Americans and two citiz...
Dec 19, 2017
Sheriff: Mississippian shoots man, sets fires, flees
JAYESS, Miss. - Officials continued to search Tuesday night for a Mississippi man who they believe shot and killed another man, wounded a woman and set two houses on fire. Mississippi Highway Patrol s...
Dec 19, 2017
Woman pleads guilty to boyfriend's death in YouTube stunt
HALSTAD, Minn. - A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend in a videotaped stunt they planned to post on YouTube. Monalisa Perez, 20, pleaded guilty last week to second-de...
Dec 19, 2017
All 1,694 residents of US town becoming Scottish landowners
SCOTLAND, Conn. - Residents of the rural town of Scotland, Connecticut, are becoming lords and ladies in the United Kingdom country of the same name. The Scottish land preservation company Highland Ti...
Dec 19, 2017
A by-the-numbers look at new data on foreign home and condo ownership in Canada
OTTAWA - New housing statistics from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., and Statistics Canada have measured for the first time foreign ownership in the country’s hot housing markets. The dat...
Dec 19, 2017
Toronto FC to open Major League Soccer season at home for first time ever
Toronto FC will kick off the 2018 season on March 3, opening defence of its Major League Soccer championship against Columbus Crew SC in a rematch of this year’s Eastern Conference Championship....
Dec 19, 2017