Category Archives: Canadian Press
NBC launches review of Lauer behaviour, company response
LOS ANGELES - NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack says the company is launching an internal review into Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct and how it was able to occur. In a company-wide memo rele...
Dec 1, 2017
Father testifies in court fight to keep daughter on life support
BRAMPTON, Ont. - A Toronto-area man waging a legal battle to keep his 27-year-old daughter on life support after she was declared brain dead told an Ontario court Friday that he never had the chance t...
Dec 1, 2017
Polytechnique presents scholarship in honour of Montreal massacre victims
MONTREAL - Ella Thomson wasn’t even born in 1989 when 14 women were killed at Ecole Polytechnique, but she says learning about the tragedy was a sobering reminder of the violence women in non-tr...
Dec 1, 2017
Bacterial infection linked to death of Vancouver Aquarium's false killer whale
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium says preliminary results from a necropsy show a false killer whale that died at the facility last Friday had a bacterial infection. An email statement from the aquar...
Dec 1, 2017
Federal government proposes changes designed to drop cost of patented drugs
OTTAWA - The federal government says it is trying to drive down drug prices by proposing changes to the regulations governing patented medicines in the first major update to those rules in more than t...
Dec 1, 2017
Lawyer frustrated by no grand jury yet in Weinstein case
NEW YORK - The lawyer for an actress who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape said Friday that she is frustrated prosecutors have not yet brought criminal charges. “Boardwalk Empire” actress P...
Dec 1, 2017
Beleaguered World Cup gets weak opener: Russia-Saudi Arabia
MOSCOW - A World Cup shrouded in corruption controversies and struggling to attract sponsors could have the dreariest of starts. Host Russia and Saudi Arabia play June 14 at Moscow in an opener lackin...
Dec 1, 2017
Verdict set for Dec. 20 in case of B.C. ex-Mountie charged with sexual assault
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge is expected to release his verdict on Dec. 20 in the case of a retired RCMP inspector charged with sexually assaulting a civilian employee in the workplace. Fifty-...
Dec 1, 2017
San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts
SAN FRANCISCO - The attacks on San Francisco and other cities with similar immigration policies began moments after a jury acquitted a Mexican man of killing a woman on a popular pier, some calling fo...
Dec 1, 2017
Christmas tree prices on the rise for first time in almost a decade
CALGARY - Holiday shoppers might have to fork over a little more for the evergreen scent of a natural Christmas tree this year as a shortage south of the border and increased demand for real trees put...
Dec 1, 2017