Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island both set legal age for marijuana use at 19
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia and P.E.I. both set their legal age for marijuana at 19 on Thursday, but the two East Coast provinces are taking different paths on how weed will be sold. P.E.I. said it will sel...
Dec 7, 2017
Leader of NDP in P.E.I. to step down immediately in wake of byelection loss
CHARLOTTETOWN - The leader of the NDP in P.E.I. is reportedly stepping down after a recent byelection loss saw the party come fourth. Mike Redmond has told media outlets on the Island that it is time ...
Dec 7, 2017
Judge postpones sentencing of Hong Kong democracy activist
HONG KONG - A judge put off sentencing Thursday for young Hong Kong democracy leader Joshua Wong in a contempt case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The 21-year-old Wong...
Dec 7, 2017
Prosecutors seek prison term for ex-Miss Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish prosecutors are seeking a maximum one year prison term for a former beauty queen who was stripped of her crown over a social media posting deemed to be “insulting”...
Dec 7, 2017
Leaders of Turkey, Greece air grievances at tense conference
ATHENS, Greece - The leaders of Greece and Turkey publicly aired their grievances Thursday in a tense news conference as a two-day visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got off to ...
Dec 7, 2017
Palestinians protest Trump move, more unrest feared
JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, demonstrators in the Gaza Strip burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Donald Trum...
Dec 7, 2017
Paris Holocaust museum opens exhibit on married Nazi hunters
PARIS - An exhibition exploring the story of the steely married couple Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who hunted German Nazis and their former collaborators in occupied France, is opening in Paris with ma...
Dec 7, 2017
Qatar signs on to buy 12 Rafale fighter jets from France
DOHA, Qatar - Qatar’s ruling emir and French President Emmanuel Macron signed 12 billion euros ($14 billion) in deals during the French president’s visit to Doha on Thursday, including the...
Dec 7, 2017
Lego wins first China copyright case against imitators
HONG KONG - Danish toy maker Lego says it has won a major legal victory in China, where a court ruled in its favour in a copyright case against companies making knockoffs of its famous colored bricks....
Dec 7, 2017
UK, EU hail Brexit breakthrough despite unresolved questions
BRUSSELS - Britain and the European Union hailed a breakthrough Friday that allows them to begin talks on their post-Brexit relations without answering some key questions about how their divorce will ...
Dec 7, 2017