Category Archives: Canadian Press
Restaurant removes sign over concerns it's offensive
KEENE, N.H. - A New Hampshire restaurant that’s preparing to open has removed a sign advertising its name over concerns that it sounded like profanity. The name of the Vietnamese restaurant in a...
Jan 03, 2019
Side of the moon you can't see 'is not dark, it's just far'
WASHINGTON - Despite the name of Pink Floyd’s bestselling album, the side of the moon you can’t see isn’t always dark. But it is far. So scientists call the area where a Chinese spac...
Jan 03, 2019
Family recovering after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in car in B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police say a woman and her five-year-old child have been released from hospital one week after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in a car. The woman’s three-year-old child r...
Jan 03, 2019
Crown tells jury to accept undercover confession of
B.C. girl's murder
VANCOUVER - The confession and later statements of a British Columbia man leave no reasonable doubt he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed a 12-year-old girl in 1978, a Crown counsel told jurors T...
Jan 03, 2019
Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine suspends work after latest 'roof fall'
DONKIN, N.S. - Operations have been suspended at Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine after a “roof fall,” the latest in a string of incidents since last July, according to the provincial ...
Jan 03, 2019
Man accused in attack on black boy in Wichita arrested again
WICHITA, Kan. - A man accused of kicking a 1-year-old black boy and yelling racial slurs in a Kansas grocery store was back in jail Thursday after being arrested in a drug possession case. Trace Riff,...
Jan 03, 2019
Misrepresenting product as kosher could cause 'spiritual trauma,' court says
TORONTO - A Toronto-area flour company has been ordered to pay $25,000 for misrepresenting a cake mix as kosher, after an Ontario court said the move could cause “spiritual trauma” to cons...
Jan 03, 2019
Two more Puget Sound orcas predicted by experts to die by summer
SEATTLE - Two more Puget Sound orcas are ailing and probably will be dead by summer, according an expert on the critically endangered population of killer whales that live in the waters of the Pacific...
Jan 03, 2019
Powerful Chicago council member charged in federal probe
CHICAGO - One of the most powerful and longest-serving City Council members in Chicago history appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge that he tried to shake down a major fast-food restaurant c...
Jan 03, 2019
Nancy Pelosi, NAFTA naysayer, makes history as latest House Speaker
WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi, a veteran Democrat brawler and vocal critic of Canada’s trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, resumed her role Thursday as Speaker of the U.S. House of Re...
Jan 03, 2019