Category Archives: Canada
Eat sulphur, breathe rust: Scientists find life deep underground
Scientists are releasing results of a decade’s worth of research that has uncovered a vast and mysterious world of microbes deep underground that could help explain how life began on Earth and h...
Dec 10, 2018
Equalization protests from Alberta likely pre-election talk: Quebec minister
OTTAWA - Quebec’s finance minister brushed off complaints from Alberta on Monday about his province’s share of the federal equalization-funding pie, calling them pre-election posturing in ...
Dec 10, 2018
Police investigate break-in at Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's Vancouver home
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver home that a court heard is owned by a recently arrested Huawei executive and her husband was broken into early Sunday morning. Vancouver police say the break-in was reported ju...
Dec 10, 2018
Pilot who targeted main Hydro-Quebec transmission lines gets 7-year sentence
ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man who targeted Hydro-Quebec power lines in an aerial attack that left tens of thousands without power in December 2014 was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison. Norma...
Dec 10, 2018
Plan to wipe out tuberculosis in Inuit communities shifts to prevention
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says a plan aimed at eliminating tuberculosis from Inuit communities shows the federal government is “getting its act together.” Philpot...
Dec 10, 2018
Canada's Donna Strickland, UWaterloo prof, collects Nobel Prize for Physics
A Canadian scientist who became one of just three women to win the Nobel Prize for Physics received her award at a formal ceremony in Sweden on Monday as supporters at her Ontario university cheered h...
Dec 10, 2018
Ellen Page steps up attack on Nova Scotia pulp mill's effluent pipeline
HALIFAX - Hollywood actor Ellen Page is doubling down on her criticism of a Nova Scotia pulp mill, rallying her 1.4 million Twitter followers against its plan to build an effluent pipeline into the oc...
Dec 10, 2018
CUPE calls off Flair Airlines job action citing job security concerns
BURNABY, B.C. - The Canadian Union of Public Employees has called off a job action by 139 Flair Airlines flight attendants that was set to begin at midnight tonight. The union cites concerns for the j...
Dec 10, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 10
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 10 --- TRADE TRIP TO CHINA CANCELLED OVER MENG DETENTION The detention of a top Huawei executive in Canada has impacted British Columbia’s forestry trad...
Dec 10, 2018
Canada Post backlog, Greyhound exit creating headaches ahead of the holidays
Jennifer Critch hopes to spend Christmas morning watching her two young daughters play with a brand new train table. But the southwestern Ontario mom is getting anxious the toy won’t be delivere...
Dec 10, 2018