Category Archives: Canadian Press
There's an app for that? CRA eyes new, digitally secure way to access services
OTTAWA - Canada’s tax agency has quietly tested a new way for Canadians to log in to their online accounts that should make it easier for Canadians to access government services while keeping wo...
Jan 19, 2019
EPL club Crystal Palace uses stadium as homeless shelter
LONDON - Premier League club Crystal Palace has offered rough sleepers emergency shelter from freezing weather conditions at its stadium. A lounge at the team’s Selhurst Park ground will be turn...
Jan 19, 2019
Liberals name Richard T. Lee as new candidate in Burnaby South
BURNABY, B.C. - The federal Liberals have named a new candidate to run against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the Burnaby South byelection. They say former provincial legislator Richard T. Lee will repla...
Jan 19, 2019
Survivors: Up to 117 missing from sunken boat off Libya
ROME - Three survivors of a rubber dinghy that sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya say up to 117 other migrants were aboard at the time, a U.N. migration official said Saturday. It ap...
Jan 19, 2019
Canada's Marielle Thompson wins silver at ski-cross World Cup event
IDRE FJALL, Sweden - Canada’s Marielle Thompson passed two competitors in the final straightaway to earn silver in a ski-cross World Cup event on Saturday. Thompson, from Whistler, B.C., passed ...
Jan 19, 2019
'Don't cry': Serena consoles Australian Open foe; Halep next
MELBOURNE, Australia - It was all a bit overwhelming for the latest opponent who could do nothing to slow Serena Williams at the Australian Open. So Dayana Yastremska, an 18-year-old from Ukraine, fou...
Jan 19, 2019
Russian doping agency says reforms at risk if new suspension
MOSCOW - The Russian anti-doping agency claimed Saturday that reforms in Russian sport are at risk if it is suspended again by the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA reinstated the Russian agency, known a...
Jan 19, 2019
Lawyer: IOC loses Swiss supreme court appeal in Russian case
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A lawyer for Russian cross-country skier Alexander Legkov says Switzerland’s federal court has dismissed the IOC’s appeal against Russian athletes being cleared of ...
Jan 19, 2019
Film airing on PBS highlights Native American links to rock
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - As a child, Fred Lincoln “Link” Wray Jr. hid under a bed when the Ku Klux Klan came to his parents’ home in rural North Carolina. Racist groups often targeted the...
Jan 19, 2019
Americans face deadline to file paperwork for Huawei executive's extradition
OTTAWA - American authorities are facing a key deadline at the end of the month to formally request the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States. Friday, a spokesm...
Jan 19, 2019