Category Archives: Canadian Press
Civil rights and legal orgs urge Trudeau to drop asylum-eligibility changes
OTTAWA - A group of civil-society and legal organizations is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw changes to asylum laws included in a Liberal budget bill tabled this week, calling them ha...
Apr 11, 2019
Liberals nix opposition motion for investigation into top-court selection leak
OTTAWA - Federal Liberals have thwarted an opposition attempt to find out who leaked information about a dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould ...
Apr 11, 2019
Far-right group's brief on immigration removed from Quebec legislature website
QUEBEC - A brief from a far-right anti-immigrant group was removed from the Quebec legislature’s website Thursday following an outcry from people who monitor extremist movements. MarieChantal Ch...
Apr 11, 2019
Bloc Quebecois tells Ottawa to stay out of debate over Quebec secularism bill
OTTAWA - The Bloc Quebecois is taking its defence of the provincial government’s secularism bill to English Canada with a billboard along an Ottawa highway. The message in English reads, “...
Apr 11, 2019
Police: Firefighter went into store nude on dare to buy soda
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - A firefighter who police say walked naked into a Rhode Island convenience store on a dare has been placed on leave. Police responded to a 7-Eleven in Middletown the afternoon of Apr...
Apr 11, 2019
France native Valentin Gnahoua picked first overall in CFL European draft
TORONTO - Valentin Gnahoua and Asnnel Robo have given football players from France another potential career path. Gnahoua and Robo went first and third overall, respectively, in the CFL’s first-...
Apr 11, 2019
Leafs hoping to write a different script against Bruins heading into Game 1
BOSTON - Nazem Kadri has plenty of bad memories inside TD Garden. He’s hoping this spring will be different. The Maple Leafs centre and defenceman Jake Gardiner are the only two players remainin...
Apr 11, 2019
Lawyers seek 25 years for Montreal man in Michigan airport stabbing
DETROIT - A Montreal man convicted of stabbing a police officer at a Flint, Michigan, airport was in debt and saw the attack as a way to become a martyr while benefiting his wife and children financia...
Apr 11, 2019
Koepka, DeChambeau share lead at the Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Bryson DeChambeau believes science was at work late in the afternoon at Augusta National, creating a force in the atmosphere where big roars from great shots filter through the back nin...
Apr 11, 2019
'NDN CAR:' Manitoba man fights to keep personalized plate referencing song
WINNIPEG - Bruce Spence is used to driving around Manitoba and seeing people pointing at his personalized NDN CAR licence plate, honking their horns, giving him a thumbs up and bursting out laughing. ...
Apr 11, 2019