Category Archives: Canadian Press
EU, UK fail to resolve border row as Brexit deadline looms
SALZBURG, Austria - Britain and its European Union partners failed on Thursday to secure a breakthrough in Brexit talks, largely because of seemingly intractable divisions over the best way to avoid a...
Sep 20, 2018
New Brunswick's Liberal premier aims to confound recent electoral history
New Brunswick voters are a fickle lot. No sitting premier has managed to win a second term since 2003, with the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives simply swapping power back and forth. Premier Bri...
Sep 20, 2018
Saskatchewan man no scaredy-cat during stray cat's lofty-perch rescue
FORT QU’APPELLE, Sask. - It was all good fortune when a frightened and bewildered black cat in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask., was lowered from a tree in which it had spent more than three days in...
Sep 20, 2018
Nicki Minaj struts into Fendi; Max Mara rewrites classics
Milan designers were letting go of streetwear and turning back to the basics of elegant design on the second day of Milan Fashion Week. That is not to say there is nothing for trendy youth. Designers ...
Sep 20, 2018
Bellegarde pushes Liberals to save parts of Indigenous chapter in NAFTA deal
OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is asking the federal government to consider moving parts of a promised Indigenous chapter to other parts of a renewed North American Free ...
Sep 20, 2018
Sheriff: Shooter had mental illness but legally owned gun
ABERDEEN, Md. - The woman who killed three people and wounded others before shooting herself to death at a Maryland drugstore warehouse had been diagnosed with a mental illness and used a legally purc...
Sep 20, 2018
Thomaidis: Canada's goal is to play in a medal game at World Cup in Spain
The 2014 women’s world basketball championship was a coming out party for Canada. The Canadians roared past France and China in the elimination round in Turkey, finishing fifth in Lisa Thomaidis...
Sep 20, 2018
Dad accused of putting girl in game machine, stealing prizes
SALEM, N.H. - A Massachusetts teacher has been charged with putting his toddler into a game machine at a New Hampshire shopping mall and using her to steal prizes. Police in Salem say 34-year-old Anth...
Sep 20, 2018
Meghan Markle takes mom along to UK cooking fundraiser
LONDON - Meghan Markle was joined by her mother Thursday to launch a cookbook aimed at raising money for the victims of London’s Grenfell Tower fire. Markle, who married Prince Harry and is now ...
Sep 20, 2018
Plants, but no pants: Florida man gardens in the nude
STUART, Fla. - Being in touch with nature is one thing. But gardening au naturel is quite another for some neighbours of a Florida man who’s been doing yard work in the nude. The miffed resident...
Sep 20, 2018