Category Archives: Canadian Press
Japan prosecutors file new allegation against Nissan's Ghosn
TOKYO - Japanese prosecutors added a new allegation of breach of trust against Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn on Friday, dashing his hopes for posting bail quickly. Ghosn and another form...
Dec 20, 2018
Zach Hyman, Igor Ozhiganov miss Maple Leafs' 6-1 win over Florida Panthers
TORONTO - Not one to complain, Zach Hyman tried to play on a bum ankle. But the gritty Maple Leafs winger had to sit out Toronto’s 6-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Thursday. The team said Hy...
Dec 20, 2018
Judge refuses to overturn $4.7 billion talc powder verdict
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri judge denied Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $4.7 billion jury verdict awarded to nearly two dozen women who said the company’s talcum powder contributed t...
Dec 20, 2018
US miscalculated benefit of better train brakes
BILLINGS, Mont. - President Donald Trump’s administration miscalculated the potential benefits of putting better brakes on trains that haul explosive fuels when it scrapped an Obama-era rule ove...
Dec 20, 2018
House GOP approves Trump's wall money as shutdown looms
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as the Republican-led House approved a package Thursday with his $5.7 billio...
Dec 20, 2018
One person trapped on damaged pier in White Rock, B.C., hoisted to safety
VANCOUVER - A person who was stranded on a pier in White Rock, B.C., has been rescued after part of the structure collapsed in strong winds. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria says on T...
Dec 20, 2018
Lev Tahor children return to Quebec amid reports of sect leadership arrests in Mexico
MONTREAL - Quebec youth protection officials say an unspecified number of children who were with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor have recently returned to the province. Myriam Sabourin, a spo...
Dec 20, 2018
Mattis outlines strategic hazards facing next Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON - The extraordinary resignation letter that Defence Secretary Jim Mattis handed to a surprised President Donald Trump was not just a product of two years of accumulating frustration with an...
Dec 20, 2018
Former NFL receiver Green-Beckham arrested in Missouri raid
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Police say former NFL wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham has been arrested after diving through a glass window when officers arrived to search a Missouri house. The Springfield News...
Dec 20, 2018
Huawei espionage for Beijing would make no sense given massive risk, exec says
OTTAWA - The fallout would be catastrophic if Huawei Canada used its role in a next-generation 5G wireless network to conduct espionage on behalf of Beijing, says a senior company official. Critics wa...
Dec 20, 2018