Category Archives: Canadian Press
Federal ministers to meet family of Canadian woman missing in Burkina Faso
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will meet Friday with the family of Edith Blais, who went missing in Burkina Fa...
Jan 17, 2019
Minnesota mom charged after toddler tumble caught on video
MANKATO, Minn. - Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a woman whose 2-year-old child tumbled from the back seat of a moving vehicle while still strapped in a car seat. Forty-year-old Maimuna Hassan o...
Jan 17, 2019
Airports, customs, trade: Europe preps for a chaotic Brexit
PARIS - One by one, European Union nations are spending millions, hiring thousands of workers and issuing emergency decrees to cope with the increasingly likely possibility that Britain will leave the...
Jan 17, 2019
Former Canadian international Lars Hirschfeld joins FC Edmonton as goalie coach
EDMONTON - FC Edmonton has hired former Canadian international ‘keeper Lars Hirschfeld as its goalkeeping coach. The 40-year-old Hirschfeld, who won 48 caps for Canada from 2000 to 2013, joins a...
Jan 17, 2019
Keegan Messing: Winning a Canadian title would mean "the world to me"
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Keegan Messing posted a photo on social media last month of the winding Alaskan highway between his hometown of Girdwood and Anchorage that he’d travelled back and forth every...
Jan 17, 2019
Garneau optimistic on truck driver training standard agreement with provinces
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Canada’s transport minister is optimistic that provinces and territories will agree on a national standard for semi-truck driver training when they meet next week. Marc Garnea...
Jan 17, 2019
Two women investigated for anti-Indigenous comments face mediation circle
OPASKWAYAK CREE NATION, Canada - Two Manitoba women arrested over online comments that threatened violence against Indigenous people were asked to read what was written out loud to elders this week as...
Jan 17, 2019
Allowing students to skip fees will reduce accountability: campus groups
TORONTO - Student organizations say the Ontario government’s decision to allow college and university students to opt out of the fees that fund campus groups, student newspapers and clubs will m...
Jan 17, 2019
Harvey Weinstein breaks with his criminal defence lawyer
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein is recasting his legal team a month after losing a hard-fought bid to get his sexual assault case thrown out. Weinstein and high-profile defence attorney Benjamin Brafman s...
Jan 17, 2019
Lawsuit: Student told her skin was 'too dark' to perform
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A black student has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas school district alleging she was prevented from performing with her high school’s dance team after being told her skin ...
Jan 17, 2019