Category Archives: Canadian Press

Man charged in connection to death of Mountie killed in Vancouver Island crash
VICTORIA - Criminal charges have been laid against a man six months after a Vancouver Island Mountie was killed when her police cruiser was hit broadside by a pickup truck. British Columbia’s Cr...
Sep 14, 2016

Melania Trump releases more immigration details, no records
WASHINGTON - Melania Trump released a letter Wednesday from an immigration attorney that provided more detail on what she said was her legal pathway to U.S. citizenship. But the Slovenian-born wife of...
Sep 14, 2016

Mom who received one cent after soldier son's suicide getting Silver Cross
TORONTO - The mother of a Canadian soldier who killed himself after serving in Afghanistan will finally be honoured with a Memorial Cross this weekend, ending a long battle to have the military recogn...
Sep 14, 2016
Complicated, dangerous rescue frees young humpback on B.C.'s central coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A young humpback whale is gouged and covered with bloody abrasions, but is expected to survive being snared in parts of unused marine equipment on British Columbia’s central ...
Sep 14, 2016

US, Israel sign massive military aid deal; $38B, 10 years
WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday signed an unprecedented new security agreement with Israel that will give the Israeli military $38 billion over 10 years. The deal, the largest such agreeme...
Sep 14, 2016
Missouri lawmaker sits for Pledge, cites Kaepernick protest
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri state senator has refused to stand while her colleagues recited the Pledge of Allegiance in the state capitol. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, says her sil...
Sep 14, 2016

Canada searching for new soccer coach to lead men to the sport's promised land
TORONTO - Canadian soccer has claimed another coaching victim. The Canadian Soccer Association dumped Benito Floro on Wednesday, opting not to renew the well-travelled Spaniard’s contract in the...
Sep 14, 2016

ACC to relocate athletic championships from North Carolina
CLEMSON, S.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference has followed the NCAA’s lead and is removing all its athletic championships from North Carolina over a state law limiting protections for LGBT peopl...
Sep 14, 2016

Indigenous communities should have power to call in the military: chief
WINNIPEG - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is considering a request to give First Nations the power to directly call in the military when their treaty, environmental and other rights are threatened. Ro...
Sep 14, 2016
Steelers' Williams defends 75-cent tip to pizzeria server
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams is defending his 75-cent tip to a server at a Maryland pizzeria. WUSA-TV reports (http://on.wusa9.com/2cI9uzD ) that Williams ate...
Sep 14, 2016