Category Archives: Canada
Alberta minor hockey team criticized for Indigenous dance video forfeits season
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Parents of Fort McMurray minor hockey players whose team was criticized for an Indigenous locker-room dance captured in a viral video say they’re forfeiting the rest of th...
Feb 15, 2019
Manitoba to look at connection between youth incarceration and child welfare
WINNIPEGOSIS, Man. - Manitoba is taking a hard look at youth justice and its connection to child welfare after a study found more than half of kids incarcerated had also been in care. Justice Minister...
Feb 15, 2019
MP Brosseau says she rejected Liberal overture because NDP is family
MONTREAL - Quebec New Democrat MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau says she rejected an overture from the Liberals and will run for the NDP in the next general election. In an interview with Le Nouvelliste newspap...
Feb 15, 2019
Statistics Canada says adults living with parents usually employed and single
OTTAWA - A Statistics Canada report is digging deeper into what kind of adults live with their parents at a time when more are doing so than ever before. Close to 1.9 million Canadians aged 25 to 64 l...
Feb 15, 2019
Liberals give BlackBerry $40M to support futuristic car development
OTTAWA - BlackBerry is getting $40 million in federal funding to help develop technologies that make cars safer, more connected to cyberspace and, eventually, capable of driving themselves. The compan...
Feb 15, 2019
Trump's national emergency: from shutdown frying pan to constitutional fire
WASHINGTON - With a few swipes of his Sharpie, Donald Trump assuaged America’s fears of another government shutdown Friday, but not before declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico borde...
Feb 15, 2019
'Trudeau is just the worst:' Manitoba teacher investigated for insulting P.M.
MIAMI, Man. - A rural Manitoba school division says it is investigating after a gym teacher posted a photo to Facebook showing him holding a sign insulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The photo was...
Feb 15, 2019
Canadians make harrowing trek to Haiti airport as Ottawa advises against travel
MONTREAL - An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti Friday to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says he feel lucky to be alive and is warning other...
Feb 15, 2019
Father charged with first-degree murder in daughter's death
The alarms rang out in the middle of the night, triggered by a mother’s urgent pleas to police to save her daughter hours after she celebrated her 11th birthday. Many jolted awake by the ringing...
Feb 15, 2019
Wilson-Raybould asked me if I would tell her what to do with SNC case: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould who asked him in the fall if he planned to tell her what to do in the prosecution of Quebec engineering ...
Feb 15, 2019