Category Archives: Canada
250 passengers stranded aboard airplane in frigid Labrador for 16 hours
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - An end is finally in sight for passengers who spent 16 gruelling hours on a plane grounded on a tarmac in frigid Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., though a passenger was lef...
Jan 20, 2019
Keep it positive in a campaign year, Trudeau tells MPs while attacking Tories
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sharpened his core re-election message on Sunday, telling his MPs to present a positive message to Canadians while he branded his Conservative opponents as a det...
Jan 20, 2019
Haida Gwaii home to a distinct but vulnerable pocket of northern goshawks
VANCOUVER - Haida Gwaii’s population of northern goshawks are the last remnant of a highly distinct genetic cluster of the birds, a new study by University of British Columbia researchers has fo...
Jan 20, 2019
Group challenges ruling requiring
doctors to give referrals for services that clash with beliefs
TORONTO - Ontario doctors challenging a court ruling that found physicians must give referrals for medical services that clash with their moral or religious beliefs say there is no proof that removing...
Jan 20, 2019
Call for tighter bail rules after Saudi sex-crime suspect vanishes
HALIFAX - Mohammed Zuraibi Alzoabi may have hoped to quietly disappear from his sexual assault trial in Cape Breton, never to be seen or heard from again in Canada. Instead, the 28-year-old man is att...
Jan 20, 2019
B.C. byelection in NDP territory tests strength of minority government
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia’s minority New Democrat government faces a crucial popularity test this month in a byelection in one of its traditionally safe constituencies where the outcome c...
Jan 20, 2019
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $17 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $17 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. ...
Jan 20, 2019
No plans to eliminate 'duty to report' for military sex misconduct: Vance
OTTAWA - Canada’s top general is promising better support for victims of military sexual misconduct, but says he will not get rid of a regulation that Canada’s auditor general has warned d...
Jan 20, 2019
Fire next door to B.C. pipeline fuel tank facility under control
BURNABY, B.C. - A fire just a few hundred metres from the Kinder Morgan fuel tank facility in Metro Vancouver raged for a few hours before it was contained by about three dozen firefighters. Burnaby F...
Jan 19, 2019
MPP asks province to provide $1M in funding for Thunder Bay police
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - An Ontario legislator and Thunder Bay police are asking the province for additional funding to implement recommendations in a report that found systemic racism within the police se...
Jan 19, 2019