Category Archives: Canada
Netflix rejects request to remove Lac-Megantic images from 'Bird Box'
MONTREAL - Netflix is refusing to remove from its hit movie “Bird Box” footage of the rail explosion that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, despite an appeal from the town’s mayor. B...
Jan 17, 2019
Bernier looks to strike some popular chords during first East Coast stops
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Maxime Bernier looked to garner support for his fledgling People’s Party of Canada Thursday as he spoke to a small business audience in New Brunswick - his first East Coast fo...
Jan 17, 2019
Project that kept more addicted patients in treatment expands across B.C.
VANCOUVER - A pilot project in Vancouver is being expanded across British Columbia after more than double the number of drug-addicted people stayed in treatment to prevent them from fatally overdosing...
Jan 17, 2019
Homeowners falling behind growing threat of climate-related catastrophes: study
Canadians aren’t keeping up with the need to protect their homes against catastrophic events made more common by climate change, says a coast-to-coast study from the University of Waterloo. R...
Jan 17, 2019
Canada faces tough decisions as Trump unveils ambitious missile-defence plan
OTTAWA - America’s allies will have to pay their share of a new missile-detection system, U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday. That likely includes Canada, which might also be forced to re...
Jan 17, 2019
Gender discrimination persists in Canada's Indian Act, UN committee rules
Despite government efforts over the years to fix the situation, Canada’s Indian Act still discriminates against Indigenous women when it comes to passing on their status to their descendants, th...
Jan 17, 2019
President escalates border battle with Democrats, cancels congressional travel
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump grounded Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders Thursday, cancelling - and disclosing - their secret military trip overseas in an apparent fit of pique over the combati...
Jan 17, 2019
Woman survives after runaway snowmobile crashes into home, lands on her
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland man says it’s a miracle his wife is alive after his runaway snowmobile crashed through the window of their home, smashing furniture and pinning her undern...
Jan 17, 2019
Quinoa seeds found at Ontario construction site date back to 900 BC: researchers
Researchers at the University of Toronto say they’ve uncovered a large quantity of quinoa seeds grown in North America thousands of years ago. They say the discovery marks the first time such se...
Jan 17, 2019
Renovations to be revealed at Saskatchewan school where shooting took place
LA LOCHE, Sask. - The mayor of a northern Saskatchewan community says there are mixed feelings as renovations to the high school are revealed three years after a deadly shooting. Four people died and ...
Jan 17, 2019