Category Archives: Canadian Press
Winnipeg mother's objection triggers toy's removal from chain's shelves
WINNIPEG - Michaels, the big arts and crafts supply store, is removing a toy depicting cowboys and Indigenous people from its shelves after a Winnipeg mother complained they were offensive. Erin Vanda...
Nov 28, 2017
Case weighs whether anti-police rap lyrics constitute threat
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania appeals court is considering whether anti-police rap lyrics amount to protected speech under the First Amendment or are a criminal threat to harm Pittsburgh police off...
Nov 28, 2017
Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli says there's 'no easy answer' to fixing woes
EDMONTON - The 2017-18 NHL season has felt like “death by a thousand cuts” for Edmonton Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli. And there is no magic pill to cure the team’s troubles...
Nov 28, 2017
'Most loving:' Memorial held for Saskatchewan woman attacked in alley in 2014
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A memorial service was held Monday night to celebrate the life of a Saskatchewan woman who captured the public eye after she survived a brutal beating, a sexual assault and bein...
Nov 28, 2017
Photo of bones burning in incinerator focus of testimony in Babcock murder trial
TORONTO - A photograph of what appears to be bones burning inside an animal incinerator was the focus of testimony Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of killing a young Toronto woman whose body h...
Nov 28, 2017
B.C. Real Estate Association predicts further dip in home sales in 2018
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Real Estate Association predicts continued cooling of the provincial housing market in 2018, but it cautions would-be home buyers that prices likely won’t soften...
Nov 28, 2017
Charges dropped against 1 of 2 officers charged in Indigenous woman's death
TORONTO - Charges against one of two Ontario police officers charged in the death of a 39-year-old Indigenous woman have been dropped. In July, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit charged Cons...
Nov 28, 2017
'I'm going to be lost,' 87-year-old
Ontario woman says after local paper closed
When Joan Aikins moved to Barrie, Ont., in 1954, she turned to the city’s paper for everything from local news to deals on diapers for her newborn child. Four years later, when the Barrie Examin...
Nov 28, 2017
Grassy Narrows pleads for governments to build and fund mercury treatment centre
TORONTO - Leaders from a Northern Ontario First Nation urged the federal and Ontario governments to commit to building and funding a mercury treatment centre in their community ahead of a meeting with...
Nov 28, 2017
Keith Olbermann ends GQ run, retires from talking politics
NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann says he is so certain President Donald Trump will be impeached or resign that he is “retiring from political commentary in all media venues.” Olbermann has starr...
Nov 28, 2017