Category Archives: Canadian Press
Publisher: Former Obama White House aide writing memoir
NEW YORK - A former White House aide who is now the chief operating officer of a Brooklyn-based media company is working on an upbeat, but “warts and all” book about her years in the Obama...
Dec 12, 2016
Settlement reached in rights case between university, victim of sexual assault
TORONTO - A human rights case between an Ontario university and a sexually assaulted student has been settled, with the Toronto-area institution promising Monday to provide specialized counselling to ...
Dec 12, 2016
Some recent prison beatings in Canada
Here are some examples of recent beatings in Canadian jails: Sept. 9, 2016 - Alvin Clifford Chiniquay, 40, beaten at Calgary Remand Centre, dies later in hospital. Thirty-two-year old inmate charged w...
Dec 12, 2016
Dauphin Island plans 'people's parade' for Carnival season
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. - A “people’s parade” is being planned on Dauphin Island for the upcoming Carnival season. Though the Island Mystics Mardi Gras organization will no longer parad...
Dec 12, 2016
With Fed looming, global shares remain buoyant
LONDON - Global stock markets rose Tuesday as oil prices gained for a third day and China reported relatively strong industrial output for November. The focus is increasingly turning onto Wednesday...
Dec 12, 2016
Director at Crewe suspended amid British sex abuse inquiry
CREWE, England - One of the most respected managers in English soccer is serving a suspension amid a widening investigation into sexual abuse by youth coaches in Britain. Dario Gradi, who was honoured...
Dec 12, 2016
Canadian actors Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds get Golden Globe nominations
TORONTO - It was a tale of two Ryans during Monday’s Golden Globe nominations announcement, with Canadians Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds both making the cut in the same category. Gosling of Lon...
Dec 12, 2016
Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...
Dec 12, 2016
Parliamentary budget office digging into Super Hornet fighter jet costs
OTTAWA - Six years after ripping into the Conservative government’s cost estimates for F-35 stealth fighters, Parliament’s budgetary watchdog says it is digging into the “interimR...
Dec 12, 2016
Feds ease rules on supervised drug injection sites, mail inspections at border
OTTAWA - The federal government is adopting a public-health approach to its drug control strategy, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday as she unveiled proposed new measures that would open the d...
Dec 12, 2016