Category Archives: Canada
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. T...
Nov 11, 2018
Headstone honours family killed in disastrous shipwreck 100 years ago
VANCOUVER - As a ship loaded with bodies recovered from one of the worst nautical disasters in West Coast history arrived in the Port of Vancouver, its sombre journey was interrupted by the sound of h...
Nov 10, 2018
Headstone to honour family killed in disastrous shipwreck 100 years ago
VANCOUVER - A family of seven who died in one of the worst nautical disasters in the history of the West Coast will have its final resting place marked in Vancouver, 100 years later. The Maritime Muse...
Nov 10, 2018
New N.B. premier plans to see through pledge to fight Ottawa's carbon pricing plan
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s newly minted Tory premier says he will follow through on his promise to fight Ottawa’s carbon pricing plan but wants to get all the facts before making a move...
Nov 10, 2018
Mourners pay respects to former premier Bernard Landry at Quebec legislature
QUEBEC - Mourners in Quebec City braved a fall snowstorm on Saturday to pay their respects to former premier Bernard Landry as his body in lay in state at the provincial legislature. By 1 p.m., some 4...
Nov 10, 2018
'We have to build some trust here': legalizing cannabis sales on Mohawk territory
MONTREAL - For the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake, cannabis legalization is an opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past regarding tobacco. Smoke shacks selling tax-free cigarettes are pervasive ...
Nov 10, 2018
Use frozen funds from dictators to help refugee crisis, says Axworthy
OTTAWA - A Canadian-led international movement seized with stanching the flow of refugees wants to use an untapped source of cash to address the global crisis: the billions languishing in the frozen b...
Nov 10, 2018
Legacies of the First World War: Canadian veterans' battle for benefits, support
OTTAWA - When the armistice that ended the First World War was signed and the guns fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918, Canadians wearily celebrated what they hoped was the start of a new era of peace. For t...
Nov 10, 2018
Eyes on Surrey, B.C., as it moves to replace RCMP with local police force
SURREY, B.C. - Anti-gang advocate Sukhi Sandhu says he will be watching closely as the new city council in Surrey, B.C., attempts what many local governments before have considered but few have done: ...
Nov 10, 2018
No winning ticket for Friday night's $50 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - There was no winning ticket for the $50 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. There were also six Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and three of them were...
Nov 10, 2018