Category Archives: Canadian Press

'Not ready for prime time': Montreal rejects body cameras for police officers
MONTREAL - As police forces across Canada weigh the merits of equipping officers with body cameras, the country’s second largest city has ruled them out as costly and ineffective. Alex Norris, c...
Feb 10, 2019
Virginia lieutenant governor wants accusations investigated
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia’s embattled lieutenant governor on Saturday called for authorities, including the FBI, to investigate sexual assault allegations made against him while defying widesprea...
Feb 10, 2019

Turkey urges China to respect Uighur rights, close camps
ISTANBUL - Turkey has called China’s treatment of its minority Uighurs “a great cause of shame for humanity.” In a statement Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said it...
Feb 10, 2019
Anti-India protests erupt in Kashmir after 5 rebels killed
SRINAGAR, India - Five rebels were killed in fighting with government forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, the Indian army said, triggering anti-India clashes in which at least 10 civilians were inju...
Feb 10, 2019
Afghan lawmaker says airstrikes kill 21 civilians
KABUL - Airstrikes in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province have killed 21 civilians, including women and children, a lawmaker from the region said Sunday. Mohammad Hashim Alkozai said 13 civi...
Feb 10, 2019
13 killed in highway accidents amid China travel rush
BEIJING - Accidents on icy highways in central China left at least 13 dead and dozens injured this weekend as millions of families were heading home from the Lunar New Year holiday. Five were killed s...
Feb 10, 2019
Female acts, rap songs win big at the Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES - Women returned at the Grammys on Sunday as female acts won album of the year and best new artist, while rap also triumphed, with Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” be...
Feb 10, 2019
Canada's Moore-Towers and Marinaro take silver at ISU Four Continents
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Canada’s Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro were 0.06 points short of gold on Saturday in pairs as they earned Canada’s first medal at the 2019 ISU Four Continents...
Feb 09, 2019
B.C. ticket wins Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - The $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was won by a ticket holder in British Columbia, while the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket hol...
Feb 09, 2019
Saturday's Games
Saturday’s Games NHL Vancouver 4 Calgary 3 (SO) Toronto 4 Montreal 3 (OT) Ottawa 5 Winnipeg 2 San Jose 5 Edmonton 2 Philadelphia 6 Anaheim 2 Minnesota 4 New Jersey 2 Buffalo 3 Detroit 1 N.Y. Isl...
Feb 09, 2019