Category Archives: Canada
Regulator flooded with complaints over doctors advocating gun control
TORONTO - A group of doctors pushing for tighter gun laws says one of its leaders has been targeted in an “organized campaign of mass harassment” fuelled by gun rights activists. Canadian ...
Mar 08, 2019
Freeland thanks U.S. lawmakers for bipartisan support on Meng arrest
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland applauded Friday a bipartisan American political effort backing Canada in its fight with China over its detention of Huawei’s chief financial ...
Mar 08, 2019
Navy spy Jeffrey Delisle granted full parole: federal board
HALIFAX - Convicted spy Jeffrey Delisle, who sold Western military secrets to Russia, has been granted full parole. A decision from the Parole Board of Canada said it was satisfied that the risk posed...
Mar 08, 2019
Gilbert Rozon sex crime hearing draws protesters but accused doesn't show
MONTREAL - Protesters gathered outside the Montreal courthouse today for a scheduled appearance by Gilbert Rozon on sex crime charges, but the Just for Laughs founder never showed, choosing to be repr...
Mar 08, 2019
SNC-Lavalin's court loss shifts spotlight to Trudeau's new attorney general
OTTAWA - The spotlight in the SNC-Lavalin affair has shifted to rookie Justice Minister David Lametti now that a court has rejected the company’s bid to force the public prosecutor to pursue an ...
Mar 08, 2019
Victim's sons tell court that killing of ailing mother was no act of compassion
MONTREAL - Following emotional testimony from the victim’s family members, the Crown and the defence offered vastly different sentencing recommendations Friday for a Montreal man convicted of su...
Mar 08, 2019
Trudeau apologizes for government's past mistreatment of Inuit with TB
IQALUIT, Nunavut - James Eetoolook is a 72-year-old tuberculosis survivor among a family of survivors. He and seven of his relatives were stricken with TB, including his mother, sisters and brother, w...
Mar 08, 2019
Lawyer for double murderer urges judge against 'custodial death sentence'
CALGARY - The lawyer for a Calgary man convicted of killing a Calgary mother and her young daughter says 50 years in prison before any chance of parole would be tantamount to a death sentence. A jury ...
Mar 08, 2019
Oland in financial bind before dad's death, but denies debt was motive to kill
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland has denied his personal financial problems were a motive to kill his multimillionaire father, Richard, but there’s little doubt he was caught in a severe money cr...
Mar 08, 2019
In the news today, March 8
Four stories in the news for Friday, March 8 --- ALLEGED FREDERICTON SHOOTER TO RETURN TO COURT A Fredericton man accused of murdering four people in an August shooting spree is set to return to court...
Mar 08, 2019