Category Archives: Canadian Press
Culturally relevant mentoring benefits aboriginal students, study finds
TORONTO - Indigenous students coached by aboriginal mentors appear to do better at school and be mentally healthier than their non-mentored peers, a new Canadian study indicates. While the findings ar...
Nov 30, 2016
Alberta's Notley to head to B.C. to sell merits of Trans Mountain pipeline
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she will head to British Columbia as early as next week to make the case for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “It’s re...
Nov 30, 2016
Some of the hearings by the Canadian Judicial Council into conduct of judges
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee has recommended federal Justice Robin Camp be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge pre...
Nov 30, 2016
At least four dead after shooting in New Brunswick's captial city
Fredericton police says at least four people have died in a shooting. Few details are available, but police were asking residents in the Brookside Drive area to stay in their homes with the doors lock...
Nov 30, 2016
House Democrats re-elect Pelosi as leader despite discontent
WASHINGTON - House Democrats re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader Wednesday, ratifying the status quo in a changing Washington despite widespread frustration over the party’s direction. That ...
Nov 30, 2016
Workers stranded on the side of a Vancouver high rise rescued safely
VANCOUVER - Three workers are safe after they were stranded more than 100 metres above the streets of downtown Vancouver early Wednesday morning. Assistant chief Martin Paulson of Vancouver Fire and R...
Nov 30, 2016
Judicial committee says 'knees together' judge Robin Camp should lose his job
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council committee says a judge’s apology for asking a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together doesn’t offset the damage done...
Nov 30, 2016
Murder-for-hire plot featured on 'Cops' headed to 2nd trial
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Dalia Dippolito offered an undercover police officer $7,000 to kill her then-husband, a proposal seen by millions thanks to the television show “Cops,” YouTube and ...
Nov 30, 2016
EPA to keep strict gas mileage standards in place
DETROIT - The Obama administration has decided not to change government fuel economy requirements that force automakers to significantly increase the efficiency of new cars and trucks. The decision an...
Nov 30, 2016
Retired Dallas Police Chief hired as contributor by ABC News
DALLAS - Retired Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who stepped into the national spotlight after a sniper killed five law enforcement officers at a July protest, will step back into the spotlight as a ...
Nov 30, 2016