Category Archives: Canada
Woman plans to die on Thursday, saying Ottawa is forcing early death on her
HALIFAX - Audrey Parker has decided to end her life on Thursday. She has approached it as a political act - an important public statement about Canada’s relatively new assisted dying law. The 57...
Oct 31, 2018
Searchers find body of missing boy in river exactly where dogs said he would be
OTTAWA - The search for an 11-year-old boy who fell into the St. Lawrence River near Rockport, Ont. this fall took an agonizing 48 days and involved dozens of people from amateur dive teams and recrea...
Oct 31, 2018
In the news today, Oct. 31
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 31 --- KENNEY TURFS PARTY MEMBER AMID REPORT OF EXTREME VIEWS Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney has turfed a party member who once ran the cal...
Oct 31, 2018
Canada Post trucks backed up as strikes move throughout Quebec, Ottawa
OTTAWA - Canada Post is facing a days-long backlog of parcel deliveries as scattered walkouts by postal workers escalate across the country, the Crown corporation warned Wednesday, hours before the Ca...
Oct 30, 2018
Novelist Steven Galloway files defamation suit over sexual assault allegations
VANCOUVER - The former chair of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia is suing a woman, claiming she falsely accused him of sexual and physical assaults. Steven Galloway&#...
Oct 30, 2018
Mom cries telling B.C. jury about last day she saw young daughter alive in 1978
VANCOUVER - The mother of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared 40 years ago tearfully told a jury Tuesday about the last time she saw her daughter outside Merritt, B.C. Madeline Lanaro said she was driv...
Oct 30, 2018
Tories continue to raise most money, but Liberals close gap as election nears
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal party just scored its best-ever third quarter fundraising result in a non-election year - but still fell $1 million short of the money raked in by the Conservatives. Accor...
Oct 30, 2018
Canadians should get used to idea of 3 per cent interest rates: Poloz
OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz wants Canadians to get used to the idea of three per cent interest rates as the new normal, now that the era of rock-bottom borrowing costs is gradually ...
Oct 30, 2018
Andrew Scheer says he and Doug Ford are working toward same goals
TORONTO - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer shrugged off suggestions Tuesday that Ontario’s premier was overshadowing him on matters of importance to the national Conservative cause, say...
Oct 30, 2018
Groups gather to discuss spate of suicides in northern Quebec region of Nunavik
MONTREAL - The regional health board serving northern Quebec is repeating calls for action as local officials gather for an emergency meeting this week to discuss a spate of suicides in Nunavik. The n...
Oct 30, 2018