Category Archives: Canada
Halifax councillors join Vancouver in declaring climate emergency
Halifax has become the second Canadian city to declare a climate emergency. Council voted Tuesday to pass a mostly symbolic acknowledgment that climate change is a serious and urgent threat. The munic...
Jan 30, 2019
Let the bell ring out: Moose Jaw city council clamps clapper replacement
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A clarion call has gone out in Moose Jaw, Sask., to repair a more than century-old bell that sits atop the city hall clock tower and some day make it ring for the first time since t...
Jan 30, 2019
U.S. group hopes to find sanctuary site for 'retired' whales in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - A U.S.-based animal protection group is touring coastal Nova Scotia communities in hopes of finding one interested in becoming a retirement home for whales and dolphins raised in captivity. ...
Jan 30, 2019
A new Canadian city flirts with the dream: heated downtown sidewalks
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A winter-weary city councillor in St. John’s, N.L., is hoping to resurrect an idea that has been tried, tested and mostly abandoned in other Canadian cities: heated side...
Jan 30, 2019
Last victim statements delivered at sentencing for trucker in Broncos crash
MELFORT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan court heard Wednesday from the parents of an athletic therapist and a radio announcer killed in the Humboldt Broncos crash, along with a player who was misidentified as...
Jan 30, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 30
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 30 --- HUMBOLDT BRONCOS FAMILIES WANT MORE ANSWERS The driver of the semi-trailer that crashed into a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos was described at hi...
Jan 30, 2019
NDP byelection victory means B.C. Liberal renewal: Leader Andrew Wilkinson
NANAIMO, B.C. - Opposition Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson says their candidate’s defeat in the Nanaimo byelection has the party shifting into a period of renewal. Wilkinson says every party nee...
Jan 30, 2019
Woman or girl slain every 2.5 days in Cda in 2018, inaugural report finds
A woman or girl was killed every 2.5 days on average in Canada last year, according to an inaugural report on femicide that argues the issue must be better understood in order to reduce the number of ...
Jan 29, 2019
Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort
VANCOUVER - It’s going to take two large floating cranes to try to lift another crane that collapsed over a container vessel at the Port of Vancouver early Monday. Louanne Wong, director of comm...
Jan 29, 2019
Quebec mother accused of killing daughters says they were her only source of joy
LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec woman on trial for murder in the deaths of her two young daughters testified Tuesday that her children were the sole source of joy in her life. Adele Sorella took the stand in h...
Jan 29, 2019