Category Archives: Canadian Press

India police: Murder of Muslim was apparent religious attack
NEW DELHI - Police in western India have arrested a Hindu man they say brutally killed a Muslim labourer in an apparent religious attack. The Press Trust of India news agency reported late Thursday th...
Dec 8, 2017

Ex-husband of Norway royal says Spacey groped him in 2007
COPENHAGEN - The former husband of Norwegian King Harald’s daughter is alleging that actor Kevin Spacey groped him during the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. Ari Behn, Princess Martha Lo...
Dec 8, 2017
South Africa's deputy 'would believe' Zuma rape accusation
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s deputy president and a top contender to take over the ruling party says he would believe the young woman who accused President Jacob Zuma of rape more than a decade...
Dec 8, 2017

Slovenian magazine apologizes to US first lady Melania Trump
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - A Slovenian magazine apologized Friday to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for suggesting she had worked as a high-end escort while pursuing her international modeling career, and s...
Dec 8, 2017

Video key in ex-officer's stiff sentence for killing
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The video was viewed millions of times around the world. It was somewhat blurry, recorded from a distance, but it clearly showed an unarmed black man running from a white officer, w...
Dec 8, 2017

Watch China's efforts to influence as Canada pursues trade, says former envoy
GUANGZHOU, China - He was a curious 23-year-old in a bustling train station somewhere in China, at the height of its busiest season, Chinese New Year. He and his two friends didn’t have tickets,...
Dec 8, 2017

Vancouver's latest tool for housing the homeless getting rough reception
VANCOUVER - Construction has hardly begun at the first of Vancouver’s temporary modular housing projects and already pushback is mounting against the city’s latest strategy to house its ho...
Dec 8, 2017
2018 needs to be year feds put flesh on bones of climate change framework
OTTAWA - Just as Canada’s government prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of its national climate change action plan, comes a heart-wrenching video that could not drive home the consequence...
Dec 8, 2017
In the news today, Dec. 8
Five stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 8 --- ENVIRONMENTALISTS WORRY CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN MAY STALL It has been a year since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau persuaded eight provinces and the three ter...
Dec 8, 2017

Ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest gets 12-year prison sentence
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - The 20 years that have passed since Bertrand Charest’s crimes cannot erase the pain he inflicted on his young victims, a judge said Friday as he sentenced the former nationa...
Dec 8, 2017