Category Archives: Canada
Disappearance of Canadian in Africa highlights risk of ignoring travel warnings
MONTREAL - Tarek Loubani says he knew it was risky providing medical care to protesters at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel in May 2018. He travelled to the territory anyway, and he was sh...
Jan 10, 2019
N.B. cannabis retailer lays off staffers as 'operational needs' become clear
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s cannabis retailer is laying off staff, saying it has a better understanding of “operational needs” three months after the historic legalization of recre...
Jan 10, 2019
Trump: USMCA to pay for wall; 'I never said they would write out a cheque'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump leaned ever closer Thursday towards declaring a national emergency at the southern U.S. border - and repeated his flummoxing claim that America’s new trade pa...
Jan 10, 2019
$74M not enough to cut refugee claim backlog: internal documents
OTTAWA - The agency that processes refugee claims in Canada estimated it would need almost four times as much money as it is getting to tackle a major backlog in asylum claims, caused in part by an in...
Jan 10, 2019
Maxime Comtois responds to cyber bullying after missed penalty shot
MONTREAL - A week after being the target of trolls on social media, Quebec-born forward Maxime Comtois has spoken out publicly for the first time. The captain of Canada’s world junior championsh...
Jan 10, 2019
Scott Brison resigning from federal cabinet, won't seek re-election
OTTAWA - Scott Brison is quitting a political career he loves to spend more time with a cherished family that politics made possible. After 22 years representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants ...
Jan 10, 2019
Former deputy police chief denies he asked officer to lie at Oland trial
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The former deputy chief of the Saint John police force has told the Dennis Oland murder trial he did not ask an officer to lie about his visits to the bloody crime scene where Richa...
Jan 10, 2019
Canada grants asylum to Saudi woman who pleaded for help on Twitter in Bangkok
OTTAWA - Canada granted asylum on Friday to the Saudi woman who won the world’s attention on social media in her desperate attempt to flee an abusive family after escaping to Thailand. Prime Min...
Jan 10, 2019
Four men on trial over theft of huge Canadian gold coin from Berlin museum
BERLIN - Four young men went on trial in Germany on Thursday over the brazen theft of a 100-kilogram Canadian gold coin that disappeared from a Berlin museum two years ago. Two brothers and their cous...
Jan 10, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 10
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Jan. 10 --- INDIGENOUS PEOPLE VOICE ANGER AT TRUDEAU TOWN HALL Indigenous people voiced their anger and frustration with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday ...
Jan 10, 2019