Category Archives: Canadian Press
Lesson learned from Mr. Hockey: Gordie Howe's son recalls a life well-lived
TORONTO - A day doesn’t go by that Murray Howe doesn’t hear a new story about his father. People don’t tend to forget meeting Mr. Hockey. In writing “Nine Lessons I Learned Fro...
Dec 18, 2017
B.C. woman hopes for return of diamond ring mistakenly donated with coins
NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia woman hopes her charitable impulse won’t cost her a cherished diamond ring. Trinda Gajek was visiting Nanaimo last week when she stopped to ask a young man if ...
Dec 18, 2017
'North Korea will certainly come up': Tillerson makes first Canadian visit
WASHINGTON - American officials say the North Korea nuclear crisis will be one of several topics of conversation when Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Canada as secretary of state on Tuesday. Ti...
Dec 18, 2017
Canadiens defenceman Weber sent home from road trip to get injury re-evaluated
VANCOUVER - Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber has been sent back to Montreal to have a foot injury re-evaluated. Montreal coach Claude Julien confirmed after the team’s practice in Vancouver that ...
Dec 18, 2017
Manley, CEOs urge Trudeau to join new U.S.-free Trans-Pacific Partnership
OTTAWA - Canada needs to immediately join a revamped Trans-Pacific Partnership that does not include the United States or it will miss its chance to deepen trade links with Asia, warns an ex-Liberal c...
Dec 18, 2017
Virginia police chief retires after criticism over rally
The first African-American police chief of Charlottesville, Virginia, abruptly retired Monday, about two weeks after a scathing independent review criticized his “slow-footed response” to ...
Dec 18, 2017
B.C. Lions name former Eskimos executive Rick LeLacheur as club's president
SURREY, B.C. - The B.C. Lions named Rich LeLacheur as the CFL’s club new president on Monday. LeLacheur was the president and CEO of the Edmonton Eskimos from 2002 to 2011. He will start his new...
Dec 18, 2017
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's relationship status no longer a secret
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s personal life is no longer under wraps. A series of Instagram photos posted over the weekend show Singh and fashion designer Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu attending wha...
Dec 18, 2017
2017 opioid deaths on pace to hit 4,000, illicit fentanyl a major culprit: PHAC
TORONTO - At least 1,460 Canadians have died from opioid-related overdoses in the first half of 2017 - a number that’s expected to rise, as not all provinces have reported final data for the per...
Dec 18, 2017
Ottawa women's shelter moving to take pets of those fleeing domestic abuse
OTTAWA - An Ottawa women’s shelter says it will be opening doors to pets in an effort to keep families together. Interval House of Ottawa, the city’s oldest shelter for women and children,...
Dec 18, 2017