Category Archives: Canadian Press
B.C. to match funds for Red Cross flood donations as water levels rise
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - As more evacuation alerts are issued and river levels rise in British Columbia, Premier John Horgan announced Wednesday his government will match Canadian Red Cross donations for th...
May 16, 2018
Royal romances: A tolerant view of divorce marks new era
LONDON - Divorce has bedeviled Britain’s royal family for centuries. It has created problems not only when Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended their marriage in the most bitter fashion in 19...
May 16, 2018
New pressure on Newfoundland and Labrador to cover abortion pill
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador - the only province that does not provide at least partial coverage of the abortion pill - is under renewed pressure to do so. Medical students and p...
May 16, 2018
Liberal election campaign chair says Peladeau uses his media as political weapon
MONTREAL - Quebec media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau uses his platforms to influence politics in the province, says a well-known businessman who recently became president of the Liberal party’s el...
May 16, 2018
Federal natural resources researchers forecast long, hot wildfire season
Federal wildfire researchers say most regions in Canada could be facing a long, hot, fiery summer. Wildfire starts and the amount of land burned were below average for the first few weeks of the seaso...
May 16, 2018
Wedding of prince and actress brings outsized media interest
BERLIN - Like most everyone else with a taste for fairytales, Germans love the spectacle of a royal wedding. But since the country’s last emperor, Wilhelm II, was forced to abdicate in 1918, Ger...
May 16, 2018
Talks break down between Canadian Lacrosse Association and national teams
The Canadian Lacrosse Association broke off communication with the National Lacrosse Team Players’ Association on Monday, deepening a standoff that threatens the country’s participation in...
May 16, 2018
Abanda: 'I will never get the same treatment (as Bouchard) because I am black'
Canadian Francoise Abanda says she’s experienced racism in tennis. But the 21-year-old from Montreal said her Twitter comments about discrimination on Wednesday weren’t aimed at fellow pla...
May 16, 2018
Suspended vice-admiral Mark Norman's case put over until July 10
OTTAWA - A handful of supporters turned up at the Ottawa courthouse Wednesday to praise Vice-Admiral Mark Norman and decry the criminal charge against him, though the suspended military officer did no...
May 16, 2018
Education, immigration, trade can lift Canada's growth prospects: central bank
OTTAWA - A top Bank of Canada official points to three areas that could lift the economy’s future growth prospects and have helped in the past: education, immigration and trade liberalization. D...
May 16, 2018