Category Archives: Canada
New study sheds light on opioid victims in effort to create better interventions
VANCOUVER - The first snapshots from a project aimed at providing a better picture of people at greatest risk of illicit drug use reveal that an average of nearly 10 Canadians fatally overdosed each d...
Nov 13, 2018
Newfoundland woman searching for family missing in Northern California
LEWISPORTE, N.L. - A Newfoundland woman is pleading for help finding missing family members nearly 7,000 kilometres away in the California town of Paradise, a fire-ravaged community at the epicentre o...
Nov 13, 2018
Coco the cow hops fence, evades capture: 'I've never had one do that'
CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - A Newfoundland farmer is on the lookout for an escaped cow that hopped his farm’s fence last Thursday. Coco was last spotted on Saturday, two days after she leapt ov...
Nov 13, 2018
Fear of constitutional crisis escalates in U.S.; Canadians can relate
WASHINGTON - The prospect of a constitutional crisis is familiar to Canadians, one that triggers feelings of dread, fear and no small measure of loathing - and now perhaps pity for the United States, ...
Nov 13, 2018
Post office suspends service guarantees as more rotating strikes strand packages
OTTAWA - Canada Post suspended delivery-time guarantees to its customers Tuesday, acknowledging a lack of progress in contract talks with its unionized workforce Tuesday as a fourth week of rotating s...
Nov 13, 2018
McGill students vote overwhelmingly for change to Redmen team nickname
MONTREAL - Pressure is growing on McGill University to shed its sports teams’ Redmen nickname after students voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change in a referendum. In a statement announci...
Nov 13, 2018
Toronto loses Amazon HQ2 battle, claims victory with bid effort
TORONTO - The Toronto region may have lost the battle to host Amazon’s highly coveted second corporate headquarters, but its leaders claimed victory in defeat. Mayors of Toronto and its surround...
Nov 13, 2018
A fine, no jail time for Canadian charged with vandalizing historic Thai wall
A Canadian woman who was arrested in northern Thailand for spraying paint on an ancient wall has avoided more jail time, but must still pay a $4,000 fine for her actions. Brittney Schneider, who is fr...
Nov 13, 2018
Feds pledge money for young scientists, but funding for in-house research slips
OTTAWA - Science Minister Kirsty Duncan says she expects universities to nominate young scientists for the vast majority of Canada’s new federally-funded research jobs. Duncan is on a cross-coun...
Nov 13, 2018
Globe and Mail workers could be off the job by midnight Wednesday: union
TORONTO - A strike appears to be looming at the Globe and Mail. The union representing editorial, circulation and advertising sales workers at the Globe says they could be on strike by midnight Wednes...
Nov 13, 2018