Category Archives: Canadian Press

'Harry Potter' books burned at Catholic parish in Poland
WARSAW, Poland - Priests at a Catholic parish in northern Poland have drawn criticism after they burned books, including from the “Harry Potter” series, and other items that their owners s...
Apr 01, 2019

Exclusive Montreal club 357c, which made headlines during corruption inquiry, to close
MONTREAL - A private club that catered to Montreal’s business elite and attracted scrutiny in 2012 during Quebec’s corruption inquiry says it will be closing its doors next month. Montreal...
Apr 01, 2019

JWR, Philpott no longer welcome in Liberal caucus; secret tape the last straw
OTTAWA - Liberal backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike condemned former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould on Monday for surreptitiously recording a phone conversation with the country’s t...
Apr 01, 2019
Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle shot and killed at 33
LOS ANGELES - Rapper Nipsey Hussle was fatally shot outside the clothing store he founded to help rebuild his troubled South Los Angeles neighbourhood, police said, cutting short a career that earned ...
Apr 01, 2019
Correction: Arkansas School-Gunfire Report story
PRESCOTT, Ark. - In a story April 1 about a shooting at an Arkansas school, The Associated Press misidentified the school. The shooting occurred at Prescott High School, not Prescott Junior High Schoo...
Apr 01, 2019

R. Kelly lawyer says Avenatti has 'polluted' sex-abuse case
CHICAGO - R. Kelly’s attorney accused the state’s attorney Monday of succumbing to pressure from attorney Michael Avenatti in bringing sex-abuse charges against the R&B singer in Illin...
Apr 01, 2019

Felix Auger-Aliassime gets Madrid wild card, hopes for same in Monte Carlo
MADRID - Felix Auger-Aliassime knows he’ll get into one main draw of an upcoming ATP Tour Masters 1000 event, but he’s playing the waiting game on the next big men’s tennis tournamen...
Apr 01, 2019
Getting the gold back Canada's aim at expanded women's world hockey championship
Canada is gearing up for more games over more days at the expanded women’s world hockey championship. The championship in Espoo, Finland, will be a 10-country tournament for the first time. Cana...
Apr 01, 2019

4 dead in 'multiple homicide' at North Dakota business
MANDAN, N.D. - Four people were found dead Monday in what police called a “multiple homicide” at a North Dakota property-management business. The bodies of three men and a woman were disco...
Apr 01, 2019

Caitlan Coleman details night she fled from estranged husband Joshua Boyle
OTTAWA - Caitlan Coleman pulled on three or four layers of socks the night she fled from her estranged husband, Joshua Boyle, she told his criminal trial Monday. It was late at night on Dec. 30, 2017,...
Apr 01, 2019