Category Archives: Canada

Transportation Safety Board continues to probe deadly northern airplane crash
FORT SMITH, N.W.T. - Investigators have started going through the site of a deadly plane crash just outside the town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories. The Transportation Safety Board has rel...
Jan 26, 2024

Woman hidden from Nazis appeals for Palestinian children on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Suzanne Weiss has been thinking about the young children orphaned in Gaza. The 83-year-old Toronto resident clearly recalls the terror she felt as a young girl, when she was hidden from Nazis by a Jew...
Jan 26, 2024

B.C. odour incidents spark questions around corporate ethics and communication
Vancouver resident Robert Ford was heading to a yoga class Sunday morning when he smelled an odour he likened to "semi-burnt fuel." As a member of council at his Kitsilano apartment building, he said ...
Jan 25, 2024

Former justice minister David Lametti resigns as Montreal MP to join law firm
OTTAWA - Former justice minister and Montreal MP David Lametti says he is resigning from public office as of the end of this month. Lametti made the announcement today, saying in a statement that he r...
Jan 25, 2024

U.K. suspends trade negotiations with Canada, as each accuse the other of not budging
OTTAWA - The United Kingdom is hitting the brakes on trade talks with Canada after Ottawa decided to not extend two temporary measures put in place after Brexit. London announced the pause in negotiat...
Jan 25, 2024

Study suggests oilsands pollutant release vastly higher than official estimates
Alberta's oilsands are releasing potentially hazardous compounds into the atmosphere at rates dozens of times higher than official estimates, newly published research suggests. The authors say the mas...
Jan 25, 2024

Manager in fatal B.C. rooming house fire calls for better fire safety training
BURNABY, B.C. - The manager of a Vancouver rooming house that was the site of a fatal fire in 2022 broke down in tears at an inquest, telling the jury that staff needed better training in fire safety....
Jan 25, 2024

Murder of Quebec sergeant: No charges for officers who killed suspect after attack
Quebec provincial police officers won't face charges for killing a man moments after he had allegedly attacked and killed their colleague in March. Police shot dead Isaac Brouillard Lessard, 35, after...
Jan 25, 2024

As border pressure mounts, Mexico says asylum claims in Canada are already dropping
OTTAWA - Mexico says asylum claims to Canada started dropping last month - a revelation that comes amid mounting pressure on Ottawa to reimpose visas for Mexican citizens. Mexico's foreign ministry sa...
Jan 25, 2024

Man facing weapons charges after gun fired in Edmonton City Hall appears in court
EDMONTON - A man facing six weapons charges after a gun was fired and a Molotov cocktail was ignited in Edmonton city hall is to have a bail hearing next week. Bezhani Sarvar, 28, made his first court...
Jan 25, 2024