Category Archives: Canada

Quebec declines talks with feds, provinces, territories on coerced sterilization
OTTAWA - Quebec won’t be part of a working group the federal government wants to examine claims that Indigenous women have been sterilized against their will. A spokesperson for Quebec’s h...
Feb 14, 2019

A brief, incomplete history of strange Canadian industrial thefts
Police are baffled after Newfoundland thieves made off with about 30,000 litres of unbottled iceberg water worth as much as $12,000. The unusual bounty, which was to be used to make vodka, was being s...
Feb 14, 2019

Prices and coverage at heart of Liberals' pharmacare plans
OTTAWA - As he lays the groundwork for the Liberals’ last budget before the fall election, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been highlighting two themes for a national drug plan: the tw...
Feb 14, 2019

New details in U.S. woman's appeal of sentence in Valentine's Day plot
HALIFAX - New court documents reveal details of how one of the masterminds of a foiled plot to attack a Halifax mall on Valentine’s Day plans to appeal her life sentence. Lindsay Souvannarath is...
Feb 14, 2019
Police arrest 32 in drug bust targeting eastern Quebec, New Brunswick network
Quebec provincial police say they’ve arrested 32 people allegedly linked to a drug trafficking ring in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. The arrests carried out Thursday are in connection with d...
Feb 14, 2019
Crown appeals privileges for Toronto military centre stabber
Prosecutors say a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre should not be allowed to take college classes on his own. The Crown is appealing a dec...
Feb 14, 2019

Blood found 'in all directions' in Richard Oland's office, expert testifies
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Richard Oland’s final moments as he was bludgeoned to death in his office are being traced in court through the patterns of bloodstains and spatter that radiated around his bo...
Feb 14, 2019

Winnipeg transit rejects signage in memory of bus driver killed on job
Winnipeg Transit drivers were told Thursday not to display messages on their buses in memory of a colleague murdered on the job exactly two years ago. Transit officials issued a memo to drivers to not...
Feb 14, 2019

'Really special:' Antique store wants to return WW1 veteran's letter to family
STEINBACH, Man. - At first Amanda Kehler didn’t notice the envelope with a faded address lying among old newspapers and certificates. When she found the $1 box on the weekend, she decided to buy...
Feb 14, 2019

Wealthy Nova Scotia thief filled home with pilfered artifacts, art
HALIFAX - A man who filled his suburban lakeside home with historic artifacts and art stolen over decades of pilfering so stealthy that many of his targets didn’t even know they’d been vic...
Feb 14, 2019