Category Archives: Canada
US: Attacker at Michigan airport was on mission to 'kill Americans'
FLINT, Mich. - A U.S. prosecutor says a Montreal man accused of stabbing a police officer at a Michigan airport was willing to die if he could have seized the victim’s gun and attacked others. J...
Nov 07, 2018
Absentee MP Di Iorio to give back salary until retirement in January
OTTAWA - The mysterious case of a missing MP has taken another twist. The Liberal party’s whip says Nicola Di Iorio, who hasn’t been seen on the Hill since Parliament resumed on Sept. 17, ...
Nov 07, 2018
B.C. premier squares off with Liberal leader in electoral reform debate
VICTORIA - The leaders of British Columbia’s two main parties square off Thursday in a debate on electoral reform that experts say arrives after decades of electoral dysfunction that produced lo...
Nov 07, 2018
Landry's death highlights the passing of sovereignty's pioneering generation
MONTREAL - The death of former Quebec premier Bernard Landry Tuesday prompted a stream of accolades from his former colleagues about his patriotism, his love of the Quebec people and his conviction th...
Nov 07, 2018
Survivors take apology to heart for 1939 refusal of asylum for German Jews
OTTAWA - Judith Steel remembers holding her father’s hand, being told to look off to the right for a moment, and feeling someone else take her hand. Her father was turning her over to an organiz...
Nov 07, 2018
A look at the special national security committee of parliamentarians
OTTAWA - Tony Clement was a charter member of the new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which has access to highly classified information. A look at the committee: What...
Nov 07, 2018
Canada's first national internment operations detailed in new doc
TORONTO - When actor-filmmaker Ryan Boyko was in Grade 10 in Saskatoon, he saw a documentary about the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the First World War that left him stunned. Growing up in...
Nov 07, 2018
State funeral for ex-Quebec premier Bernard Landry to be held Nov. 13
MONTREAL - A state funeral will be held in Montreal next Tuesday for former Quebec premier Bernard Landry. Landry, the Parti Quebecois premier from 2001 to 2003, died Tuesday at age 81 at his home in ...
Nov 07, 2018
Judge to appoint new lawyer for man accused in Fredericton shooting spree
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of murdering two police officers and two civilians in an August shooting spree is getting his wish for a new lawyer. Matthew Raymond says he feels he has not be...
Nov 07, 2018
Ottawa Citizen rejects Senators' request to take down players' Uber video
A major Canadian newspaper said Wednesday it has no intention of taking down a secretly recorded video of several Ottawa Senators players despite a legal notice insisting leaving it online violates pr...
Nov 07, 2018