By Shawn Jeffords The Canadian Press TORONTO — Throughout the 2018 provincial election campaign Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford touted his candidates as talented and capable of delivering on his promises. Ford, whose party won a majority Thursday night, has said he would have no trouble choosing a cabinet from […]
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By Joan Bryden The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The Senate has approved the Trudeau government’s landmark legislation to lift Canada’s 95-year-old prohibition on recreational cannabis ‚Äî but with nearly four dozen amendments that the government may not entirely accept. Bill C-45 passed easily in the upper house late Thursday by […]
By Amy Smart The Canadian Press VICTORIA — As the years stretched into decades with no arrests after his sister’s body was found in Washington state, it was becoming hard for John Van Cuylenborg of Victoria, B.C., to maintain hope for any justice or answers. Then he received a phone […]
By Phuong Le The Associated Press SEATTLE — The fish buyer noticed something different about the large, colorful disc-shaped opah waiting to be sold at the auction house in Honolulu. Among the differences: one fish had a bigger eye than the other. His curiosity set in motion DNA testing and […]
By Catherine LuceyRob Gillies And Zeke Miller The Associated Press LA MALBAIE, Que. — President Donald Trump injected fresh drama into an already tense meeting of the Group of Seven major industrialized nations Friday, calling for Russia, ousted for its the annexation of Crimea, to be reinstated. Trump made the […]
Stephanie Hagenaars Progressive Conservative candidate Greg Rickford was declared victor of the Kenora-Rainy River district race, after facing New Democrat Glen Archer and Liberal Karen Kejick in Thursday’s provincial election. Soon after polls closed at 8 p.m., ballot numbers started pouring in, revealing a tight race between the NDP and […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to federal weather figures released Wednesday. May was […]
By Caleb Jones The Associated Press HONOLULU — A neighbourhood called Vacationland on Hawaii’s Big Island had disappeared by Wednesday as lava poured into two oceanfront subdivisions, smothering hundreds of homes and filling an ocean bay, turning it into new land that now juts into the sea. Molten rock entirely […]
By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Comedian Samantha Bee returned to her TBS show on Wednesday, apologizing again for using a crude epithet to describe Ivanka Trump but expressing anger that the ensuing controversy distracted from more important issues. President Donald Trump had called for her to […]
By Catherine Lucey And Zeke Miller The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Before President Donald Trump sits down with a third-generation North Korean autocrat, he will face what may well turn out to be a tougher crowd some of America’s oldest allies. With his new tariffs increasing U.S. isolation, Trump heads […]
The Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — A black bear taking a stroll through a busy, urban section of one Florida city was lured to safety by a popular breakfast staple: waffles. Florida wildlife officers said the yearling bear was spotted Monday morning near a Fort Myers apartment complex. The […]
The Associated Press TOKYO — Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte set off from Japan to San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Spokesman Alexandre Borreil said Lecomte left at 8 a.m. on Tuesday from Choshi, Japan, which is northeast […]
