Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Rights group: Israel approves over 4,000 new settler homes
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel advanced plans for the construction of more than 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rights group said, a day after the military demolished homes in an...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Parks Canada recovers 45 fossils stolen from Burgess Shale, levies $20,000 fine
LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA - A Quebec resident has been fined $20,000 for taking 45 fossils from three national parks in the Rocky Mountains, including an internationally known fossil site. Parks Canada say...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile toward sea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of weapons demonstrations this years and jus...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Tory Leadership Debate and US Supreme Court to Meet: In The News for May 12, 2022
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 12, 2022. … What we are watchi...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Anti-abortion rally to assemble on Parliament Hill amid leaked U.S. court draft
OTTAWA - An annual anti-abortion rally is set to converge on Parliament Hill today, a demonstration that typically attracts thousands. The March for Life protest comes as the re-emergence of the landm...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

What federal Conservative leadership candidates can learn from Kenney and Alberta
EDMONTON - As federal Conservative leadership candidates travelled to Alberta this week, they arrived in a fractured Tory heartland. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, who won a majority government in 2019...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Putin’s alleged girlfriend not ruled out of future Canadian sanctions: minister
OTTAWA - Canada has not ruled out imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s alleged girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast, says the foreign affairs minister. Kabaeva’s name is r...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Safe house in tiny Nunavik village aims to break generations of trauma for Inuit
KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ, Que. - On any given day in Kingaqsualujjuak, Que., a person or family in crisis can call a 24-hour number and speak to a community member who can help. Qarmaapik House offers a safe ...
Canadian Press May 12, 2022

Small flock in Comox Valley is B.C.’s 7th to test positive for avian influenza
VICTORIA - A small poultry flock in British Columbia’s Comox Valley has tested positive for the avian flu, the first case on Vancouver Island. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says in a relea...
Canadian Press May 11, 2022

B.C. drops 24 tickets against pastors issued for violating COVID-19 orders
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - British Columbia’s Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed it dropped two dozen COVID-19 violation tickets against three Chilliwack, B.C., pastors who continued in-person wors...
Canadian Press May 11, 2022