Category Archives: Canada
Trost, Tories, settle leadership dispute over leak of membership list
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party has cleared Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost’s leadership campaign over a leak of the party’s membership list to the National Firearms Association ahead o...
Feb 11, 2019
Crown argues Toronto Eaton Centre shooter knew what he was doing
TORONTO - A man who killed two people and injured several others when he opened fire at Toronto’s Eaton Centre may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but prosecutors said Monday ...
Feb 11, 2019
Quebec man faces manslaughter charge in death of 5-month-old baby girl
ST-JEROME, Que. - A 24-year-old Quebec man faces charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death after a baby girl was found unconscious inside a home west of Montreal. Police found the ...
Feb 11, 2019
Ontario Tories attack student unions in fundraising email
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford accused student unions of getting up to “crazy Marxist nonsense” as he appealed for donations to his Progressive Conservative party in a fundraising email sent ...
Feb 11, 2019
CBC's Joe Schlesinger remembered for compassionate reporting, esteemed career
TORONTO - Longtime CBC foreign correspondent Joe Schlesinger, who spent decades covering war zones and global events that shaped history, has died after a lengthy illness. A spokesman for the public b...
Feb 11, 2019
Appeal court upholds stiff sentence for Canadian trying to join terrorist group
TORONTO - An Ontario court has dismissed an appeal from a man convicted of trying to join a Somali-based terrorist organization, saying stiff penalties are necessary in such cases to deter similar wou...
Feb 11, 2019
Privacy commissioner finds doctors snooped in Humboldt Broncos patient records
REGINA - Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly bus...
Feb 11, 2019
Odd couple of the deep: B.C. dolphins hang out with killer whales
VANCOUVER - Drone flights have revealed an odd couple of the deeps. Scientists from the Vancouver Aquarium have released video of dolphins hanging around pods of killer whales, two species that are us...
Feb 11, 2019
Man accused of killing ailing wife wasn't suffering from major depression: expert
MONTREAL - A Crown expert cast doubt Monday on a Montreal man’s defence that he was suffering from depression that hindered his decision-making when he killed his severely ill wife nearly two ye...
Feb 11, 2019
Social media sites like Facebook take in lion's share of federal ad dollars
OTTAWA - Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter now take in the lion’s share of federal advertising dollars, thanks to an ongoing increase in the use of digital advertising by governmen...
Feb 11, 2019