Category Archives: Canada
Alleged spree killer back in Fredericton court after psychiatric assessment
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of murdering four people in an August shooting spree is set to return to court Friday following a 60-day psychiatric assessment. The assessment was ordered to d...
Feb 07, 2019
Scheduled address by convicted killer at teachers convention cancelled
CALGARY - The president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association has apologized to the family of a British Columbia murder victim and cancelled a scheduled panel discussion with her killer at a conv...
Feb 07, 2019
StatCan says number of cannabis users relatively unchanged since legalization
OTTAWA - The national statistics offices says legalizing cannabis doesn’t seem to have much changed how many people use the drug. Figures released Thursday morning from Statistics Canada show ab...
Feb 07, 2019
Trudeau denies report his office pressured attorney general to help SNC-Lavalin
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied a potentially incendiary allegation that his office told former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution...
Feb 07, 2019
Daycare fees dropping in some provinces with aid of public policy, study says
OTTAWA - Daycare fees have dropped - or barely inched up - in some Canadian cities in what might be early signs of the influence of federal child-care money, a new survey says. The fifth annual survey...
Feb 07, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 7
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 7 --- LINDROS URGES NATIONAL CONCUSSION PROTOCOL Former hockey great Eric Lindros brought his star power to Parliament Hill on Wednesday, urging MPs to deve...
Feb 07, 2019
Ottawa hid vital information, claim ailing diplomats who served in Cuba
OTTAWA - Five Canadian diplomats and their family members who became mysteriously ill while posted to Cuba are suing Ottawa for more than $28 million. In a statement of claim filed Wednesday in Federa...
Feb 06, 2019
Doctors getting smaller payment increases, doctors per person rising: Institute
OTTAWA - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says doctors in Canada are seeing smaller payment increases at the same time that the number of doctors per Canadian is rising. The not-for-profi...
Feb 06, 2019
Lindros urges MPs to recommend national protocol for sports-related concussions
OTTAWA - Former hockey great Eric Lindros brought his star power to Parliament Hill on Wednesday, urging MPs to develop a single national protocol for preventing and treating sports-related concussion...
Feb 06, 2019
Paul Dewar, former NDP foreign affairs critic, dies of cancer at 56
OTTAWA - Paul Dewar, a teacher and union leader from Ottawa who became the New Democratic Party’s foreign affairs critic, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year. Despite st...
Feb 06, 2019