Category Archives: Canadian Press
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Old 'Mary Poppins' book returns to library
ST. PAUL, Alta. - It was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious find. A first-edition hardcover book of “Mary Poppins,” published in 1934, is back in an Alberta public library after 40 years...
Jul 18, 2018
Quebec to spend money to fight invasive plant species
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec says it will spend about $8 million over five years to fight invasive plant species. Today’s announcement comes just a few days after a coalition of groups called on Qu...
Jul 18, 2018
Jay-Z unhappy 'Made in America' leaving Philadelphia parkway
PHILADELPHIA - Jay-Z said Wednesday he’s disappointed that Philadelphia is booting his annual music festival from the city’s grandest boulevard, accusing the mayor of having “zero ap...
Jul 18, 2018
Wickenheiser knows challenge facing Lincicome at Barbasol Championship
When Brittany Lincicome tees off against men on the PGA Tour this week, Canadian hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser wants her to tune out the noise and just play her game. As someone who spent years comp...
Jul 18, 2018
Fake abduction and Bitcoin ransom the latest way to trick victim: RCMP in B.C.
RICHMOND, B.C. - Mounties in Richmond, B.C., say it appears criminals have added Bitcoin ransom to the growing list of manoeuvres to swindle money from unsuspecting victims. Officers responded to a re...
Jul 18, 2018
Minnesota State Fair announces dozens of new attractions
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota State Fair announced dozens of new attractions Wednesday for the 2018 edition of the Great Minnesota Get-Together. The fair runs from Aug. 23 through Labor Day, Sept. 3. He...
Jul 18, 2018
'Like magic:' Delicate fossil of oldest baby snake found in amber
EDMONTON - It curves elegantly, its delicate bones looking as if they could easily slither out of the amber encasing them into the forest undergrowth that would have been home. The oldest fossil of a ...
Jul 18, 2018
Coroner who didn't probe Wettlaufer victim death testifies at inquiry
A coroner who failed to find anything suspicious about the deaths of two people killed by an Ontario nurse told a public inquiry Wednesday that he never considered the possibility that a caregiver in ...
Jul 18, 2018
Hundreds of European travellers stuck in Montreal after airline cancels flights
MONTREAL - During their two-week Canadian vacation, Jessie Brillouet and her three friends visited Niagara Falls and went whale watching in Tadoussac, Que. - but they’ve also seen more of Montre...
Jul 18, 2018
Long-term equitable recovery services needed to manage addiction in B.C.: report
VANCOUVER - When the daily partying, boozing and cocaine binges following high school left him homeless and living in a tent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Josh McDearmid believed his life wo...
Jul 18, 2018