Category Archives: Canadian Press
Boy, 13, charged with first-degree murder after cyclist run down, stabbed:police
TORONTO - A 13-year-old boy is facing a murder charge after a cyclist was allegedly run down with an SUV and assaulted, Toronto police said Friday. Investigators said 19-year-old Aaron Rankine-Wright ...
Jun 15, 2018
Signs seeking return of heirloom: 'My mother will kill me'
MEDFORD, Mass. - A recent college graduate desperate to recover a family heirloom mistakenly left curbside when he moved out of his apartment is plastering his neighbourhood with signs warning, “...
Jun 15, 2018
Three missing after five thrown into water off Tofino, B.C., as boat sinks
TOFINO, B.C. - A search is underway in the waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island after a small boat carrying five people went down early Friday. Lt. Melissa Kia with the Joint Rescue Co-ordina...
Jun 15, 2018
Judge jails ex-Trump campaign chair Manafort ahead of trial
WASHINGTON - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was jailed Friday after a federal judge revoked his house arrest over allegations of witness tampering in special counsel Robert Mueller’...
Jun 15, 2018
'Gone for Canada Day:' Protest camp taken down at Saskatchewan legislature
REGINA - A months-old camp on the Saskatchewan legislature lawn where people had been protesting racial injustice and the disproportionate number of Indigenous children apprehended by child-welfare wo...
Jun 15, 2018
Beyak applauds survey that shows Canadians divided on Indigenous issues
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is applauding an online survey that suggests a majority of Canadians believe the government apologizes too much for residential schools and that Indigenous people should integ...
Jun 15, 2018
Owners of the rail line to Churchill had duty to fix it: regulators
WINNIPEG - Federal regulators have ruled that the owners of a broken rail line to Churchill were wrong not to repair the track that kept the northern Manitoba community connected to the outside world....
Jun 15, 2018
Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Romanian tennis player Simona Halep sparks outrage
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanians have expressed outrage at a cartoon in the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo likening their newly crowned tennis champion to a Gypsy scrap metal collector. The ca...
Jun 15, 2018
Montreal police seek potential witness in case of missing 10-year-old boy
Montreal police said Friday they are looking to speak with a woman who was in the same park where a 10-year-old boy was last seen before he went missing last March. Police don’t consider the wom...
Jun 15, 2018
McDonald's to switch to paper straws in U.K., Ireland
NEW YORK - McDonald’s said Friday it will switch to paper straws at all its locations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and test an alternative to plastic ones in some of its U.S. restaurants l...
Jun 15, 2018