Category Archives: Canadian Press
Ottawa Muslim community grieving after sisters killed
Ottawa’s Muslim community is struggling to come to grips with an alleged family tragedy that resulted in the deaths of two devout sisters. Police allege that 32-year-old Asma A-Noor and her 29-y...
Dec 20, 2016
Ex-nanny for Penguins player gets 5-year federal sentence
PITTSBURGH - The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insur...
Dec 20, 2016
Filion, McClure O'Brien Award finalists as harness racing's top drivers
TORONTO - Once again, Sylvain Filion is a finalist for the O’Brien Award as Canada’s top harness-racing driver. The Milton, Ont., resident won the award in 2012, ’14 and 2015 and is ...
Dec 20, 2016
Leafs' Zach Hyman playing Robin role to Auston Matthews' Batman
TORONTO - When he was still the head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, Mike Babcock often watched Wings prospect Dylan Larkin play at the University of Michigan. He’d always come away impressed by...
Dec 20, 2016
Obama bans future oil leases in much of Arctic, Atlantic
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasi...
Dec 20, 2016
Nova Scotia to drop controversial markup fee on sales by craft brewers
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it will change a controversial markup fee applied to the province’s craft breweries by the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. Premier Stephen McNeil says beginnin...
Dec 20, 2016
Volkswagen deal gives some diesel car owners buyback option
SAN FRANCISCO - Volkswagen reached a deal that will give at least some owners of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught in the company’s emissions cheating scandal the option of a buyback a...
Dec 20, 2016
San Francisco names LAPD veteran as new police chief
San Francisco named a new police chief, an African-American police veteran who officials and community activists hope can reform a troubled department marred by fatal police shootings of minorities. T...
Dec 20, 2016
Investigation launched after error sends jet into path of Air Canada plane
LOS ANGELES - U.S. federal officials are investigating after an air traffic controller error sent a jet from Los Angeles International Airport into the flight path of an Air Canada plane last week. An...
Dec 20, 2016
Feds discriminating against women through Indian Act, court hears
TORONTO - A woman denied Indian status despite being able to trace her indigenous heritage for at least five generations is the victim of gender discrimination, Ontario’s top court heard Tuesday...
Dec 20, 2016