Category Archives: Canadian Press
'The threat is not over,' New Brunswick official warns as floodwaters recede
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Officials are issuing a fresh warning to flood-weary New Brunswickers even as the record-breaking floodwaters that have swamped homes, washed away cottages and submerged dozens of r...
May 08, 2018
Doug Ford stands by Tory candidate under fire for past comments
TORONTO - Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader is standing by a candidate who distanced himself from past comments that are being described as misogynistic, racist and homophobic. Doug...
May 08, 2018
Cannes Film Festival opens with focus on gender equality
CANNES, France - The 71st Cannes Film Festival was opening Tuesday with the premiere of Asghar Farhadi’s “Everybody Knows,” but the spotlight at the first post-Harvey Weinstein editi...
May 08, 2018
Film scholar, 'accidental scientist' among winners of $100,000 Killam Prize
OTTAWA - A film scholar, a clinical neuroscientist, a biomechanics pioneer, a particle physicist and a researcher who studies language in infants are among the Canadian innovators ...
May 08, 2018
States await election security reviews as primaries heat up
With the midterm congressional primaries about to go into full swing, the Department of Homeland Security has completed security reviews of election systems in only about half the states that have req...
May 08, 2018
State Department: Giuliani not a spokesman on foreign policy
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration sought to distance itself from Rudy Giuliani’s dramatic public statements about Iran and North Korea, saying that President Donald Trump’s new lawyer ...
May 08, 2018
Trump considers benching Giuliani from doing TV interviews
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to p...
May 08, 2018
Lingering residents forced to evacuate as lava cracks spread
PAHOA, Hawaii - Edwin Montoya’s family carved their farm on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano out of “raw jungle,” transforming it into a fertile collection of gardens, animal pens a...
May 08, 2018
World Cup bid: US assures FIFA on travel discrimination fear
The Trump administration has guaranteed to FIFA there will be no discrimination around entry to the United States at a World Cup in 2026. The North American bid has faced questions about the impact of...
May 08, 2018
Obstacle or opportunity? Doha's world championship marathon to start at midnight
TORONTO - Runners will step up to the starting line for the next world championship marathon at a time Canada’s best marathoners are already asleep. Dubbed the “midnight marathon,” t...
May 08, 2018