Category Archives: Canadian Press

Quebec election campaign hits one-third mark with claims of dirty attacks
MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard defended attacks by his troops against the rival Coalition Avenir Quebec as the province’s election campaign hit the one-third mark on Tuesday. Couil...
Sep 04, 2018

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel abandons quest for third term
CHICAGO - Rahm Emanuel, whose tumultuous tenure as Chicago mayor included an infamous police shooting and a surge in violent crime, said in a surprise announcement Tuesday that he would abandon his pl...
Sep 04, 2018
Midfielder Liam Fraser replaces the injured Jay Chapman in Canada camp
TORONTO - Midfielder Liam Fraser has replaced injured Toronto FC teammate Jay Chapman on Canada’s squad for Sunday’s CONCACAF Nations qualifying game against the U.S. Virgin Islands. Chapm...
Sep 04, 2018

Mark Norman gets 2019 trial date in shadow of federal election
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are being accused of withholding secret documents in the politically charged case against one of the military’s most senior leaders, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, whose...
Sep 04, 2018
Chris Kelly joins Ottawa Senators as development coach
OTTAWA - Chris Kelly is back with the Ottawa Senators. The club announced Tuesday the 37-year-old has been hired as a development coach. In 845 career games with the Senators, Boston Bruins and briefl...
Sep 04, 2018
Canada's children have high rates of suicide, child abuse, infant mortality:report
TORONTO - Canada’s global reputation as a healthy place to raise children is belied by statistics showing strikingly high rates of suicide, child abuse and struggles with mental health, a new re...
Sep 04, 2018
Ontario teachers' union takes legal action to fight repeal of '15 sex-ed curriculum
TORONTO - One of Ontario’s largest teacher’s union has launched a legal challenge against the government’s decision to repeal a modernized version of the province’s sexual-educ...
Sep 04, 2018
Canadian man gets 51 months in border gun-smuggling case
BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Montreal man has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after he admitted smuggling about 100 handguns into Canada across the Vermont-Quebec border. Alexis Vlachos appeared in U.S. ...
Sep 04, 2018

Canada women drawn with Costa Rica, Jamaica and Cuba at CONCACAF Championship
Knowing already that it was to be separated from the U.S. in the preliminary round, Canada expected little drama out of Tuesday’s draw for next month’s CONCACAF Women’s Championship....
Sep 04, 2018
Police arrest man wanted in connection with Toronto's Yorkdale mall shooting
TORONTO - Police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting at a busy Toronto mall. Toronto police say they arrested Zion Sankar-Beharry, 20, without incident Monday near Trenton, Ont. P...
Sep 04, 2018