Category Archives: Canadian Press
Drivers' strike cripples train services in southern England
LONDON - A 48-hour strike by train drivers crippled rail services Tuesday in southern England as a long-running dispute delayed and cancelled journeys for hundreds of thousands of London commuters. Th...
Dec 13, 2016
Italy's new government wins 1st of 2 confidence votes
ROME - Premier Paolo Gentiloni easily won a vote of confidence Tuesday night from the Italian Parliament’s lower chamber for his new government, overcoming opposition outrage that his cabinet an...
Dec 13, 2016
Justice tracking more than 100 constitutional challenges to mandatory penalties
OTTAWA - Justice reforms brought in by the previous Conservative government in the name of getting tough on criminals “compounded pressures” on the system - a litigation-fuelled backlash t...
Dec 13, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 13
Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 13 --- FEDS OPEN DOOR TO MORE SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES Health Minister Jane Philpott has unveiled a plan to open more supervised injection sites in Canada....
Dec 13, 2016
Parliament's budget watchdog, National Defence battling over warship data
OTTAWA - National Defence and Parliament’s budget watchdog have been quietly battling over access to key information about the government’s multi-billion-dollar plan to buy the navy new wa...
Dec 13, 2016
Grip of drug addiction shapes new ideas to reduce risk of deadly fentanyl
VANCOUVER - Watching an addict fill a syringe with puddle water, former senior RCMP officer Raf Souccar imagined a radical shift in how Canada could deal with people in the grip of drug addition - by ...
Dec 13, 2016
Stories from people who have lost loved ones to opioids
VANCOUVER - A gradual surge in lethal opioid overdoses shows no sign of slowing, and some experts say the worst is yet to come unless governments do more to counteract the deadly crisis. The incursion...
Dec 13, 2016
Some facts about the deadly opioid fentanyl
Here are some facts about fentanyl: What is fentanyl? Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid traditionally used for pain management. Fentanyl can’t be seen, smelled or tasted, which makes it di...
Dec 13, 2016
Man who fired shots in DC pizzeria to face federal charges
WASHINGTON - A man inspired by an internet conspiracy theory to fire an assault weapon inside a pizza restaurant warned friends that his “raid” could involve killing people, according to c...
Dec 13, 2016
For Congress, defence contracts are like baseball, apple pie
WASHINGTON - For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defence contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Str...
Dec 13, 2016