Category Archives: Canada
RCMP should have alerted PM's protective detail about Jaspal Atwal: Review
OTTAWA - The RCMP should have alerted Justin Trudeau’s protective detail that Jaspal Atwal - a man with a serious criminal record and a history of violence - might turn up during the prime minis...
Dec 03, 2018
Fake website launched in New Brunswick to educate investors about real scams
FREDERICTON - People who fell for a website hyping a too-good-to-be-true investment opportunity for New Brunswick’s coastline got lucky: The scam wasn’t intended to trap potential investor...
Dec 03, 2018
Some anxious moments as Canadian David Saint-Jacques successfully blasts off
LONGUEUIL, Que. - As David Saint-Jacques blasted off into space Monday, retired astronaut Robert Thirsk clinically explained the process to a packed crowd of Canadian Space Agency staff and guests. It...
Dec 03, 2018
Federal government needs to listen harder to scientists: letter
Three of Canada’s top environmental scientists want the federal government to listen harder to what their studies are saying about the future. In a letter released Monday, they say they want pol...
Dec 03, 2018
Scheer promises more funding for police forces to combat gun and gang violence
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising more money for police to combat gun and gang violence and says he will audit Canadian jail programs to make sure inmates are ready to rejoin soc...
Dec 03, 2018
Software glitch affected hundreds of patients across Canada, Telus says
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Patients across the country may have missed seeing timely medical results because of a software issue involving an electronic medical record program. Most of the patients were...
Dec 03, 2018
Former Roughrider pleads guilty to pot possession, gets absolute discharge
SASKATOON - A former wide receiver with the Saskatchewan Roughriders has been given an absolute discharge after admitting to marijuana possession. Duron Carter’s lawyer appeared in Saskatoon pro...
Dec 03, 2018
Labour, environment standards key to getting USMCA through: Canadian ambassador
OTTAWA - Canada’s pressure to include “soft things” like labour standards in the new North American free-trade treaty will help secure critical support for the deal from Democrats in...
Dec 03, 2018
Ottawa announces $50M to support survivors of gender-based violence
HALIFAX - Forty days ago, a woman returned to her home on Nova Scotia’s We’koqma’q First Nation to find her 22-year-old daughter, Cassidy Bernard - a new mother of infant twins - dea...
Dec 03, 2018
Newfoundlanders remember former president Bush's fishing trips to Labrador
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Some prominent Newfoundlanders are reflecting on the late George H.W. Bush and his affection for the fishing trips he made to the province. The former U.S. president passed aw...
Dec 03, 2018