Category Archives: Canada

Space agency picks second ex-astronaut to push health-research plans
OTTAWA - The Canadian Space Agency says it wants to hire ex-astronaut Dave Williams to help figure out how to get humans to Mars and back in one piece. But if you’re also a medical doctor who...
Feb 13, 2019

RCMP charges another official in connection with alleged shipbuilding leak
OTTAWA - A second public official has been charged over the alleged leak of cabinet secrets related to the $700-million naval shipbuilding contract that is also at the heart of the case against Vice-A...
Feb 13, 2019
Meet the luckiest woman in Newfoundland: 'Who doesn't love free stuff?'
PARADISE, N.L. - Kirbie Humber could be the luckiest woman in Newfoundland. She has been on a hot streak for a year, winning at least one contest a month, and sometimes more. “It’s like, &...
Feb 13, 2019
McGill receives record-setting $200-million donation for graduate scholarships
Montreal’s McGill University has received what it says is the single largest donation in Canadian history in the form of a $200-million gift towards a graduate scholarship program. McGill said W...
Feb 13, 2019

Case of newborn seized in hospital to be back in court in March
WINNIPEG - A family trying to get back a newborn who was seen in a social media video being taken away by police in a Winnipeg hospital is to be back in court in March. The video of the infant was bro...
Feb 13, 2019

Trudeau faces critics inside and outside party as Wilson-Raybould scandal swirls
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a backlash within and outside his own party after Jody Wilson-Raybould’s sudden resignation from his cabinet. The veterans-affairs minister quit ...
Feb 13, 2019
China's Huawei soft power push raises hard questions
TORONTO - Canada’s national game - brought to you by China’s Huawei. As a nasty diplomatic feud deepens between the two countries over the tech company, involving arrests and execution ord...
Feb 13, 2019

In the news today, Feb. 13
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 13 --- MPS TO HAVE SAY ON SNC-LAVALIN CONTROVERSY The SNC-Lavalin controversy shifts today to the House of Commons justice committee, where MPs will decide...
Feb 13, 2019

Former gymnastics coach Dave Brubaker found not guilty of sex assault
SARNIA, Ont. - A former high-ranking gymnastics coach was acquitted of sexual assault and sexual exploitation Wednesday after a judge found the testimony of the complainant sincere but said the police...
Feb 13, 2019
Liberals agree to only limited hearings on Wilson-Raybould affair
OTTAWA - Liberals faced accusations of a coverup Wednesday after they agreed to hold limited committee hearings into an allegation that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was improperly pres...
Feb 13, 2019