Category Archives: Canadian Press

R.J. Barrett arrives home to make Duke basketball debut in virtual backyard
TORONTO - Duke’s men’s basketball team hadn’t travelled on an international pre-season tour in ages. It’s fitting that when they finally did, it’s virtually in R.J. Barre...
Aug 13, 2018
Highlights of Ontario's private cannabis retail model and online platform
TORONTO - Ontario says it will sell recreational cannabis through an online retail channel when it is legalized this fall, with plans to have pot in private retail stores early next year. Here are the...
Aug 13, 2018

Box office Top 20: 'The Meg' reels in $45.4 million debut
NEW YORK - It took until mid-August, but an original movie is finally no. 1 at the box office. After several months of sequel and franchise reboots leading the weekend box office, the shark thriller &...
Aug 13, 2018

Unclear if Riders head coach/GM Jones tried trading Carter before release
By his own admission, Chris Jones released a “very good player” when the Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach/GM gave Duron Carter his walking papers Sunday. But it’s unclear if Jones...
Aug 13, 2018
Wife of Nigerian man who died during deportation seeking answers: lawyer
CALGARY - A lawyer for the family of a Nigerian man who died while he was being deported from Canada says his widow is looking for answers. Bolanle Idowu Alo, who was 49, died following an altercation...
Aug 13, 2018
Proof of climate perils seen in cost for flood, fire cleanups: safety minister
SASKATOON - Canada’s minister for public safety and emergency preparedness has told delegates at an international irrigation and drainage conference that flood and fire losses are costing Canadi...
Aug 13, 2018

Supply management, abortion among policies Tories to debate at convention
OTTAWA - Getting rid of supply management and regulating abortion are just two of the more than six dozen policy resolutions that will be on the agenda at the federal Conservative party’s bienni...
Aug 13, 2018
Preliminary hearing begins in Quebec in double murder case
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A preliminary hearing began Monday for a Quebec man accused of two murders following an Amber Alert last year. The man faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of his ex-pa...
Aug 13, 2018
Ontario elementary teachers should teach modernized sex-ed curriculum: union
TORONTO - A union representing Ontario’s elementary school teachers is calling on its members to continue to teach a modernized sex-ed curriculum despite the provincial government’s decisi...
Aug 13, 2018
'Completely outrageous:' Alberta doctor investigated for alleged comments
CARDSTON, Alta. - A southern Alberta doctor is on administrative leave from a position at Alberta Health Services after allegedly telling some homeless Indigenous people to “get jobs” in l...
Aug 13, 2018