Category Archives: Canadian Press
APNewsbreak: Florida paid millions settling harassment cases
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state of Florida has paid more than $11 million over a 30-year period to settle hundreds of cases that alleged that state workers were sexually harassed by supervisors and co-w...
Nov 27, 2017
Federal marijuana legislation approved by Commons, moves on to Senate
OTTAWA - The federal government’s plan to legalize marijuana by next summer is a step closer. Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons, passing by a vote of 200-82. It no...
Nov 27, 2017
QuickList: some of the federal government apologies over the years
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will apologize Tuesday in the House of Commons for a number of historical unjustices perpetrated by the federal government against members of the LGBTQ community...
Nov 27, 2017
$100 million for gay purge victims as PM apologizes for LGBTQ discrimination
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has earmarked more than $100 million to compensate members of the military and other federal agencies whose careers were sidelined or ended due to their sexual orientat...
Nov 27, 2017
Feds hope to fill Irving's scheduling gap between patrol ships, warships
OTTAWA - The federal government is scrambling to close a looming gap in the construction of two new fleets of naval vessels in Halifax, which Irving Shipbuilding has previously warned could result in ...
Nov 27, 2017
Toronto doctor who sexually abused patients appeals court ruling
TORONTO - A Toronto doctor who sexually abused female patients is fighting a court order that would require the Ontario medical regulator’s discipline committee to impose a tougher penalty for h...
Nov 27, 2017
Police stop car with massive Christmas tree on top
SUDBURY, Mass. - Police in a Massachusetts town are showing residents how not to transport their holiday trees. Sudbury police posted a picture Friday of a vehicle with a large tree on top of it. Almo...
Nov 27, 2017
Trump, honouring Navajos, revives 'Pocahontas' jab at Warren
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump returned to his own kind of code talking Monday by deriding Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” at a White House event honouring Native Ame...
Nov 27, 2017
Ras says he wasn't told of ongoing mercury contamination in Ontario First Nation
OTTAWA - Former federal Liberal leader Bob Rae says he was unaware during his tenure as Ontario premier that there was likely ongoing mercury contamination taking place upstream from Grassy Narrows Fi...
Nov 27, 2017
Man travels more than 90k kilometres to set Ontario birding record
A 27-year-old Ontario man has become the province’s top birder after travelling more than 90,000 kilometres since Jan. 1. Jeremy Bensette of Leamington has spotted 344 species of birds in his tr...
Nov 27, 2017