Category Archives: Canadian Press
B.C. tells feds to back off, stop interfering in Trans Mountain pipeline
VANCOUVER - British Columbia says the federal government needs to back off and stop interfering in an independent review process over the approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. Env...
Nov 30, 2017
Canadian, American civic leaders urge feds to reject nuclear-waste proposal
TORONTO - More than 100 mayors and other elected officials on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are urging Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to put the kibosh on a proposed nuclear-waste bunke...
Nov 30, 2017
'Smelled' someone suspicious? Cops seek suspect in sewage plant break-in
ST. THOMAS, Ont. - Police in a southwestern Ontario city are appealing to anyone who may have seen or “smelled” someone suspicious following a break-in at a sewage treatment facility. St. ...
Nov 30, 2017
Jim Nabors, who made cheery Gomer Pyle a TV icon, dies at 87
NEW YORK - Jim Nabors made good on his last name when he brought Gomer Pyle to “The Andy Griffith Show.” His big-hearted, ever-cheery gas-pump jockey was a neighbourly fit in the easygoing...
Nov 30, 2017
Canada's Tanaka hoping to complete comeback from injury with Olympic berth
Canadian ski jumper Atsuko Tanaka remembers having to call her parents to pick her up from the dog park when a bout of nausea - a symptom of a concussion - brought her to her knees while she was walki...
Nov 30, 2017
Former cabinet minister Vic Toews cleared of conflict: judicial council
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Judicial Council has rejected complaints that former federal cabinet minister Vic Toews, who is now a Manitoba judge, is unfit to remain on the bench after violating the Confli...
Nov 30, 2017
Driver arrested in alleged naked kidnapping in Alberta is facing more charges
LEDUC, Alta. - One of three people arrested in a bizarre case of an Alberta family allegedly kidnapped by a group of naked people is facing additional charges. Court records show a 35-year-old woman h...
Nov 30, 2017
Second-hand 'toke' could lead to failure of workplace drug test: study
CALGARY - It looks like Canadian Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Ross Rebagliati may have been right all along. Rebagliati, the first Olympic gold medalist for Men’s Snowboarding at the 1998 W...
Nov 30, 2017
Rights groups call on Trudeau to raise plight of prisoners held in China on trip
OTTAWA - A Montreal woman whose father has been imprisoned in China wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to press for the release of him and more than a dozen other prisoners, but she isn’t optim...
Nov 30, 2017
Quebec lawmakers pass motion calling on store clerks to use 'bonjour' greeting
QUEBEC - Mariya Sadat greets customers in various languages at the Old Montreal souvenir shop where she works. She’ll use “bonjour,” “hi,” or, if it seems appropriate, sh...
Nov 30, 2017