Category Archives: Canadian Press
Lawyer appears for Quebec entertainer Eric Salvail in sex assault case
MONTREAL - Quebec entertainer Eric Salvail was represented by his lawyer for a brief court appearance Friday on charges of criminal harassment, forcible confinement and sexual assault. The charges ste...
Feb 15, 2019
Canadian diver Toth wins women's 10-metre tower at opening Grand Prix stop
ROSTOCK, Germany - Celina Toth of St. Thomas, Ont., earned her first individual international victory on Friday, winning the women’s 10-metre tower at the opening stop on the FINA Grand Prix div...
Feb 15, 2019

Fourteen 'dream' homes ordered evacuated as sinkholes open in Sechelt, B.C.
Greg and Gerry Latham spent Friday morning scrambling to pack up family heirlooms as a series of sinkholes threatened to destroy their dream retirement home on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast....
Feb 15, 2019

Bombshell book alleges a Vatican gay subculture, hypocrisy
PARIS - A gay French writer has lifted the lid on what he calls one of the world’s largest gay communities, the Vatican, estimating that most of its prelates are homosexually inclined and attrib...
Feb 15, 2019
Alberta minor hockey team criticized for Indigenous dance video forfeits season
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Parents of Fort McMurray minor hockey players whose team was criticized for an Indigenous locker-room dance captured in a viral video say they’re forfeiting the rest of th...
Feb 15, 2019
Fashion world descends on London for fashion week shows
London is taking its turn in the style spotlight with the opening of London Fashion Week, an extravaganza that will feature up-and-coming young designers along with big names like Victoria Beckham, Vi...
Feb 15, 2019
Main suspect in Sweden's royal jewels heist confesses
COPENHAGEN - The main suspect in the theft of royal funeral artifacts from a Swedish cathedral confessed Friday to stealing them after his DNA was found on the items that were pulled out last week fro...
Feb 15, 2019

Manitoba to look at connection between youth incarceration and child welfare
WINNIPEGOSIS, Man. - Manitoba is taking a hard look at youth justice and its connection to child welfare after a study found more than half of kids incarcerated had also been in care. Justice Minister...
Feb 15, 2019

MP Brosseau says she rejected Liberal overture because NDP is family
MONTREAL - Quebec New Democrat MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau says she rejected an overture from the Liberals and will run for the NDP in the next general election. In an interview with Le Nouvelliste newspap...
Feb 15, 2019
Statistics Canada says adults living with parents usually employed and single
OTTAWA - A Statistics Canada report is digging deeper into what kind of adults live with their parents at a time when more are doing so than ever before. Close to 1.9 million Canadians aged 25 to 64 l...
Feb 15, 2019