Category Archives: Canadian Press
Danny DeVito receives lifetime achievement award in Spain
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain - Actor Danny DeVito has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at Spain’s most prestigious film festival in the northern coastal city of San Sebastian. DeVito, 73,...
Sep 22, 2018
Toronto Wolfpack down Widnes Vikings to stay on track for Super League promotion
TORONTO - Less than 30 months after holding up a Wolfpack jersey before a fairly dubious audience at the franchise’s opening news conference, Toronto coach Paul Rowley is on the eve of leading t...
Sep 22, 2018
Wolverhampton spoils Ferguson's Man U homecoming in EPL
LONDON - English Premier League newcomer Wolverhampton turned party-pooper on the day Alex Ferguson made an emotional return to Old Trafford. The most successful coach in British soccer history was ba...
Sep 22, 2018
QuickList: 10 of Canada's most notable tornado events over the years
OTTAWA - A tornado carved a destructive path through the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Friday, tearing roofs off of homes, overturning cars and felling power lines. According to Environment Canada, Canada g...
Sep 22, 2018
Quebec party leaders head to Gatineau to survey tornado-damaged areas
MONTREAL - Quebec’s political party leaders set their political differences aside on Saturday as they headed to Gatineau, Que., to survey the damage from a tornado that ripped through homes and ...
Sep 22, 2018
One dead following police-involved shooting in Burlington, Ont.
BURLINGTON, Ont. - A 32-year-old man was shot and killed following an exchange of gunfire with police that also sent two officers to hospital west of Toronto, Ontario’s police watchdog said. Fiv...
Sep 22, 2018
Canada's capital region reeling after intense tornado rips through communities
OTTAWA - Parts of Canada’s national capital were still reeling Saturday after a powerful tornado carved paths of destruction through residential neighbourhoods - snapping huge trees, tossing car...
Sep 22, 2018
Baloney Meter: Do Liberal policies mean a typical family is $2,000 richer?
OTTAWA - “Our plan - to invest in people, to strengthen and grow the middle class, and to build an economy that works for everyone - is working. By this time next year, a typical family of four ...
Sep 22, 2018
Trump wants to rid Justice Department of 'lingering stench'
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - President Donald Trump has issued an ominous warning about the Justice Department and the FBI, promising more firings to rid a “lingering stench” after reports that Depu...
Sep 22, 2018
It's tapped: Beer flows as Oktoberfest opens in Munich
MUNICH - The first keg has been tapped and the beer is flowing as the 185th Oktoberfest gets underway in Munich. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg on Saturday with two blows of a h...
Sep 22, 2018