Category Archives: Canada
Cuba criticizes Canada's diplomatic downsize after another diplomat falls ill
OTTAWA - The Cuban government is criticizing Canada’s decision on Wednesday to halve its embassy staff after a 14th Canadian fell ill to an unexplained illness in Havana. Josefina Vidal, Cuba...
Jan 30, 2019
Moosehead Breweries donates to make Saskatchewan's Mac the Moose tallest again
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A New Brunswick brewery has donated $25,000 to the cause of making a beloved Saskatchewan moose statue the tallest in the world once again. Trevor Grant, with Moosehead Breweries, s...
Jan 30, 2019
Witness bolsters Oland defence on timing of multi-millionaire's murder
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A man working in the building where Richard Oland was beaten to death says he heard a loud crash and thumping noises coming from the murder scene, a Saint John trial was told Wednes...
Jan 30, 2019
'Who was the aggressor?' Defence lawyer argues bus driver went after passenger
WINNIPEG - A defence lawyer is arguing that a bus driver stabbed to death in a fight with a passenger could have pulled out the knife that he was eventually killed with. Evan Roitenberg told jurors th...
Jan 30, 2019
Canadian MPs condemn Netflix for using Lac-Megantic images in Bird Box
OTTAWA - Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster there in fictional dramas, Canada’s members of Parliament have agreed unanimously. The m...
Jan 30, 2019
Plan to buy more fighter jets puts Canada on hook for bigger share of F-35 costs
OTTAWA - Canada is being forced to shoulder a bigger share of the costs of developing F-35 fighter jets even though it has not decided whether it will actually buy any. Canada is one of nine partner c...
Jan 30, 2019
Mother accused of murdering daughters says she has no memory of day they died
LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec mother on trial for the deaths of her two daughters told a jury she remembers little of what happened the day they died. Adele Sorella was testifying in her own defence Wednesda...
Jan 30, 2019
Health Canada 'dead wrong' to OK weedkiller glyphosate, American lawyers say
OTTAWA - American lawyers who successfully sued the makers of the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup on behalf of a man dying of cancer say Canada is “dead wrong” to allow it to be widely...
Jan 30, 2019
Struggling seal pup receiving treatment after rescue off Vancouver Island
VANCOUVER - A dehydrated, severely underweight northern fur seal pup is being treated at a rescue centre in Vancouver after being scooped from the waters off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island. T...
Jan 30, 2019
Five top public servants to warn of major meddling with next federal election
OTTAWA - An impartial group of senior bureaucrats will warn Canadians if malicious actors try to manipulate the outcome of this fall’s federal election. The Trudeau government announced the R...
Jan 30, 2019