Category Archives: Canada

Two youths in custody after fire destroys Iqaluit's largest grocery store
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Two Iqaluit youths are in custody after a series of fires earlier this week in the Nunavut capital, including one that damaged the city’s largest store and grocer. RCMP said F...
Nov 09, 2018

Trudeau's trade chops to be tested on 10-day, three country trip
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set off on a 10-day voyage across Europe and Asia to pursue his oft-stated goal of finding markets for Canadian goods and services beyond the United States. ...
Nov 09, 2018

Keystone XL setback will cost Canadian industry 'millions', says association
CALGARY - The Canadian oil industry reacted with frustration and bitterness Friday after a U.S. judge ordered a halt to the Keystone XL pipeline project until it passes further environmental review. T...
Nov 09, 2018

Aging, dwindling legions look to halt long decline: 'We are changing'
In the heart of downtown Regina, Royal Canadian Legion’s Regina Branch 001 has provided communal space for Canadian military veterans since it was first chartered in 1926. Today, it hosts a muse...
Nov 09, 2018

Plan to create a national securities regulator is constitutional: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Constitution allows Ottawa and the provinces to set up a national securities regulator, the Supreme Court says in a ruling that could help advance a plan for countrywide oversight of capi...
Nov 09, 2018

Higgs sworn-in as New Brunswick premier, names francophone as deputy premier
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s new Tory government has taken power, with a 17-member cabinet that includes four women and the party’s lone francophone MLA as deputy premier. “Today it...
Nov 09, 2018
In the news today, Nov. 9
Five stories in the news for Friday, Nov. 9 --- U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS CONSTRUCTION OF KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE TransCanada’s $10-billion Keystone XL pipeline project has suffered another setback after a...
Nov 09, 2018

U.S. judge blocks construction of $10-billion Keystone XL pipeline
GREAT FALLS, Mont. - TransCanada’s $10-billion Keystone XL pipeline project has suffered another setback after a U.S. federal judge blocked its construction to allow more time to study the poten...
Nov 08, 2018

Police warn that sex offender, child abductor to live in Vancouver
VANCOUER, B.C. - Vancouver police have issued a public warning about a high-risk offender moving into the city who was at the centre of a high-profile abduction case in 2011. Police say Randall Hopley...
Nov 08, 2018

War bride portraits capture 'strength, frailty' of women who left home for love
For Bev Tosh, it began as a labour of love: creating a portrait of her mother as a 1940s war bride on the occasion of her 80th birthday, a likeness rendered in oil from a decades-old photo. But that s...
Nov 08, 2018