Category Archives: Canada
Canadian charged with indecency in Australia after flight from Hong Kong
ADELAIDE, Australia - A Canadian man is accused of performing indecent acts on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia. Australian Federal Police arrested the 28-year-old man on arrival in Adelaide on Th...
Jan 18, 2019
Accused in slaying of wife at long-term care centre told nurse he was responsible
MONTREAL - Two witnesses at the trial of a Montreal man accused of killing his ailing wife told a jury Friday the accused admitted to taking the woman’s life. Linda Desgagne, a senior nurse at t...
Jan 18, 2019
Kenya court orders 5 suspects, including Canadian, held for Nairobi hotel attack
NAIROBI, Kenya - A Canadian national and four other people suspected of helping extremist gunmen stage a deadly attack in the Kenyan capital this week appeared in court on Friday as prosecutors invest...
Jan 18, 2019
Milk vodka? Federal government opens consultations on definition of vodka
The federal government is asking Canadians how they like their vodka. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has uncorked consultations on whether to redefine the clear, neutral spirit and open interprov...
Jan 18, 2019
Ottawa looking into case where Saudi fled sex charges after embassy posted bail
HALIFAX - Federal officials are looking into how a Saudi man may have fled Canada while facing sexual assault charges, as legal experts suspect the Middle Eastern kingdom’s embassy played a key ...
Jan 18, 2019
High court ruling allows long-term expats to vote in February byelections
TORONTO - Expat Canadians with ties to one of three ridings now in the throes of byelections may be eligible to vote no matter how long they’ve been abroad given last week’s Supreme Court ...
Jan 18, 2019
Report Trump counselled Cohen to lie to Congress rekindles impeachment cries
WASHINGTON - The drumbeat of impeachment grew a little louder in Washington on Friday following an explosive media report that alleges the president of the United States directed his former lawyer and...
Jan 18, 2019
Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario declares state of emergency over housing
CAT LAKE, Ont. - The leadership of Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario has declared a state of emergency, citing “profoundly poor conditions of housing” as the cause of a public heal...
Jan 18, 2019
Federal ministers seek to reassure family of Canadian woman missing in West Africa
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday all indications are that a Canadian woman who has been missing in Burkina Faso for more than a month is still alive. Fears for the well-bei...
Jan 18, 2019
Trudeau acknowledges global turmoil is making Canadians anxious, fearful
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday that Canadians are anxious about the upheavals occurring around the globe - with Canada recently seeming to have become the world’s favourit...
Jan 18, 2019