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ROTHENBURGER: What to do about certain people who ‘hang out’ in public spaces
A STAIRCASE ON SEYMOUR STREET WEST has been torn out on orders from Kamloops City council. One of the reasons is to discourage certain people from "hanging out" there, as City Hall puts it.Whether tak...
Sep 19, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
Trump says gun negotiations going 'very slowly'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pouring cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as his aides circulate a draft plan on Capitol Hill. Trump tells Fox News in...
Sep 19, 2019
Renzi splits Italy's Democrats, shaking govt coalition
ROME - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ...
Sep 19, 2019
Bus crashes carrying country singer Josh Turner's road crew
SHANDON, Calif. - Authorities in central California say a passenger bus has crashed while carrying the road crew for country and gospel singer Josh Turner, leaving one dead and seven injured. Turner a...
Sep 19, 2019
Trudeau's 2001 'brown face' and moving Beyond Meat; In-The-News for Sept. 19
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 Sept. 19. What we are watching ...
Sep 19, 2019
Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line
PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after h...
Sep 19, 2019
Authorities: Separate attacks in Afghanistan kill 48
KABUL - Separate attacks by suicide bombers - one targeting President Ashraf Ghani's election rally and a second that ripped through the centre of the Afghan capital - killed at least 48 people and wo...
Sep 19, 2019
'Time to take action:' Children advocates call for national youth suicide strategy
WINNIPEG - Children's advocates from across the country are urging the federal government to create a national strategy to deal with what they are calling a youth suicide crisis. "I've sat with parent...
Sep 19, 2019
Alberta couple charged in toddler son's death to learn fate from judge
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A judge is to rule today whether an Alberta couple who treated their son with herbal remedies rather than seek medical attention should be held responsible in his de...
Sep 19, 2019
Fallout from Trudeau's brownface photo bombshell sure to dominate campaign
OTTAWA - It won't be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau today as the Liberal leader grapples with the fallout from a bombshell that landed on the campaign trail. An 18-year-old photo surfaced Wed...
Sep 19, 2019
