Category Archives: Canada
Figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond to receive Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Figure skating champion Kaetlyn Osmond will be receiving the highest honour in her home province - the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. Osmond, 23, left Marystown, N.L., fo...
Dec 31, 2018
Top stories of 2018 - July-Dec.
JULY 2018 1 – Manuel Lopez Obrador won Mexico’s presidential election, defeating incumbent Enrique Pena Nieto. He took office on Dec 1. 1- NHL all-star free agent centre John Tavares signe...
Dec 31, 2018
How many drug users who OD'd have brain damage? Doctors say Canada needs data
VANCOUVER - Dayton Wilson’s drug-taking routine ended when he overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl, but being able to walk and talk normally are also part of his past as he struggles with bra...
Dec 31, 2018
Mike Taylor, keyboardist for Burlington, Ont.-based Walk off the Earth, dies
BURLINGTON, Ont. - The Burlington, Ont.-based band Walk off the Earth has announced the death of keyboardist and vocalist Mike Taylor. In a post on various social media sites Sunday evening, the band ...
Dec 30, 2018
Jean Dumontier, architect and artist of Montreal subway stations, dies
MONTREAL - Jean Dumontier, an architect who helped design Montreal’s subway and adorned its walls with his art, has died in his early 80s. A spokesperson for the city’s transit agency conf...
Dec 30, 2018
Emails reveal how Ottawa sought to explain PTSD treatment for man who killed cop
HALIFAX - Newly released documents offer a glimpse into how high-level government officials grappled to respond to the revelation that Veterans Affairs was funding the PTSD treatment of a Halifax man ...
Dec 30, 2018
'I want to be put back into the air,' the life and death of a BASE jumper
Mike Racicot kept a letter with one request should he die: “I want to be put back into the air.” The five-page handwritten missive the elite BASE jumper had left at his home in British Col...
Dec 30, 2018
Cabinet OKs plan for Mint to craft special toonies to mark D-Day anniversary
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mint is creating two commemorative coins to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The Liberal cabinet approved the design of the new toonies, one of which will have multiple ...
Dec 30, 2018
Jurors as conscripts: Four things to know if you're summoned to serve
Jurors convicted Curtis Healy of first-degree murder this fall after hearing a brutal account of how he raped and beat Dawns Baptiste, a Calgary mother of four, before killing her with a rock to her h...
Dec 30, 2018
'Knee-jerk reaction:' Lawyers worried about proposed changes to trial system
CALGARY - Legal experts say proposed changes to the Criminal Code after a high-profile acquittal in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man are short-sighted. Key changes in a federal bill, which has ...
Dec 30, 2018