Category Archives: Canadian Press

Health ministers meeting in Winnipeg want national pharmacare, but who pays?
WINNIPEG - Canada’s health ministers say they are moving closer to a national pharmacare program, but questions remain over who will pay for it and how broad it will be. After meeting with her p...
Jun 29, 2018
Quebec weighing legal options as judge temporarily suspends face-covering law
NEW YORK - The Quebec government will wait for its lawyers to study a court decision this week that temporarily suspended a law banning people from covering their faces when receiving or giving a publ...
Jun 29, 2018

Federal judge blocks Kentucky's Medicaid work requirements
FRANKFORT, Ky. - A federal judge says Kentucky can’t require poor people to get a job to keep their Medicaid benefits, chastising President Donald Trump’s administration for rubber-stampin...
Jun 29, 2018
Conviction tossed for man accused in Lil Wayne bus shooting
ATLANTA - Georgia’s highest court has reversed the convictions of a man who pleaded guilty to a gang charge after he was accused of shooting into rapper Lil Wayne’s tour buses on a Georgia...
Jun 29, 2018
Ugly goal conceded last week in Yankee Stadium looks bad on Toronto FC
Toronto FC’s up-and-down MLS season hit a low in last week’s 2-1 loss at New York City FC. The 68th-minute winning goal by Norwegian striker Jo Inge Berget was an ugly snapshot of what has...
Jun 29, 2018
A list of the new members named by Rideau Hall to the Order of Canada
OTTAWA - The Order of Canada is getting 99 new members in 2018. Here’s a list: Companions of the Order Roberta Bondar, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., astronaut, educator. Beverley McLachlin, Ottawa, lo...
Jun 29, 2018
Order of Canada recipients include outspoken critics of Trudeau government
OTTAWA - He was ripped from his family as a child and placed in a residential school. He survived abuse at the school and later went on to become a lifelong advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peopl...
Jun 29, 2018
Tariffs Q&A: Nine things to know about Canada's retaliatory tariffs
The Canadian government has responded to the Trump administration’s decision to apply tariffs on steel and aluminum by imposing retaliatory tariffs effective Sunday on $16.6 billion worth of Ame...
Jun 29, 2018
Ottawa unveils $9M fund to help black youth overcome 'unique challenges'
The Trudeau government unveiled a $9-million fund Friday that it says aims to help black youth fully and equally participate in Canadian society. The money was unveiled at news conferences in Montreal...
Jun 29, 2018
Ontario man charged with threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
WINDSOR, Ont. - A 60-year-old Ontario man has been charged with uttering threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Windsor police say an incident occurred on Tuesday and they later charged Royce ...
Jun 29, 2018