Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Mitch Marner victim of carjacking in Toronto, Maple Leafs say
TORONTO - Maple Leafs winger Mitch Marner was the victim of a carjacking in Toronto, the hockey team said Tuesday as city police investigated. Marner was not hurt in the carjacking that took place in ...
May 17, 2022
N.B. police officer who fatally shot woman during wellness check testifies at inquest
FREDERICTON - The police officer who fatally shot a 26-year-old Indigenous woman during a wellness check in Edmundston, N.B., two years ago says he doesn’t know why things escalated so quickly. ...
May 17, 2022
US hate crime investigation opened in Dallas salon shooting
DALLAS (AP) - The FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation into last week’s shooting at a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown area that injured three people. The Dallas FBI field offi...
May 17, 2022
Alberta premier urges U.S. senators to convince Michigan to stop Line 5 shutdown
WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is urging the U.S. government to convince Michigan to abandon its legal campaign against the Line 5 pipeline. He’s also floating the idea of a new bilat...
May 17, 2022
Confusion over RCMP leadership roles marked early investigation of N.S. mass shooting
HALIFAX - When a man disguised as a Mountie started killing people in northern Nova Scotia two years ago, there was considerable confusion over who was in charge of the RCMP operation, newly released ...
May 17, 2022
Sweden signs NATO request, Finland formally endorses move
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Finland's Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed a bid from the Nordic country's government to join NATO. Lawmakers at the 200-seat Eduskunta legislature voted 188-8 Tuesday to approv...
May 17, 2022
Hezbollah, allies lose their majority in Lebanon parliament
BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies have lost the parliament majority they had held since 2018, according to final results from the Lebanese elections released Tuesday. Hez...
May 17, 2022
Vaping vs cigarettes, royals visit Newfoundland and Labrador : In The News for May 17
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 17 … What we are watching in C...
May 17, 2022
Milgaard pushed for action on Indigenous sisters’ wrongful conviction claims
David Milgaard was actively helping people who claim they have been wrongfully convicted right up until his sudden death, including two Indigenous sisters who have been incarcerated for nearly 30 year...
May 17, 2022
Over half of young people see racist content online about immigrants, poll suggests
OTTAWA - Over half of Canadians under age 35 come across racist or prejudiced remarks about immigrants on the internet, a new survey suggests. Forty-two per cent of all respondents to the online surve...
May 17, 2022