Category Archives: Canadian Press

Analyst who fed NFL player tips pleads guilty to fraud
PHILADELPHIA - The former investment bank analyst who fed confidential stock tips to NFL player Mychal Kendricks has pleaded guilty to securities fraud. Damilare Sonoiki, who also wrote for the televi...
Sep 20, 2018

US home sales were flat in August
WASHINGTON - U.S. sales of existing homes were unchanged in August, as a shortage of houses priced at less than $250,000 - a level considered to be affordable for the middle class - has become a drag ...
Sep 20, 2018
Man wins five-year battle over pay lost during Prince Edward Island snowstorm
CHARLOTTETOWN - In what might be a moral victory for every Canadian who ever had to go to work in bad weather, a P.E.I. man has won a five-year battle to get 3.5 hours worth of pay after being unable ...
Sep 20, 2018
Following review, military police reopen 23 'unfounded' sexual assault cases
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has reopened 23 cases of alleged sexual assault after revisiting dozens of files previously dismissed by military police as “unfounded.” The move follows...
Sep 20, 2018
Trek to scale Alberta mountain ends in hospital for climbers caught in slide
JASPER, Alta. - Two people suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries when they were swept about 600 metres by an avalanche they triggered while climbing a mountain in Jasper National Park. Pa...
Sep 20, 2018

Highly competitive Toronto campaign emerges in light of province's victory
TORONTO - As Toronto prepared for a leaner local government following Ontario’s legal victory over the size of the city’s council, longtime politicians were being pitted against one anothe...
Sep 20, 2018

Despite protests, Russia's anti-doping agency reinstated
The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia’s scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports’ most notorious dopin...
Sep 20, 2018

'I still stand behind my decision to publish,' former editor says of Ghomeshi essay
A former editor at the New York Review of Books says he stands by his decision to publish a controversial essay written by disgraced former radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ian Buruma told Vrij Nederland, a ...
Sep 20, 2018
Lawmaker: US Senate, staff targeted by state-backed hackers
Foreign government hackers continue to target the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides - and the Senate’s security office has refused to defend them, a lawmaker says. Sen. Ro...
Sep 20, 2018

Women supporting Kavanaugh find themselves in storm's centre
NEW YORK - It started as a series of phone calls among old high-school friends and ended up embroiling 65 women in the firestorm over a sexual assault allegation that could shape the Supreme Court. In...
Sep 20, 2018