Category Archives: Canada

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 15 --- SOURCES: NEONICS ON THEIR WAY OUT IN CANADA The federal government will begin phasing out the outdoor use of nicotine-based pesticides beginning in 2...

FREDERICTON - She awoke to the crack of gunfire, the shots fired two floors above her in a Fredericton apartment complex. Then she heard a loud pounding at the door, and police wielding guns ordered h...

OTTAWA - More than one hundred municipal wastewater systems did not report how much raw sewage overflowed from their pipes in 2017 but Environment Canada is only investigating two of them for violatin...

TORONTO - The case of Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard, who faces three sex-related charges, was put over to September after a brief hearing in Toronto on Wednesday. Hoggard, 34, was arrested last month ...

VANCOUVER - Pipeline protesters who were ordered to take down their camp outside a Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby, B.C., are instead preparing to tie themselves to its structures in anticipation of...

SASKATOON - A Saskatoon girl has turned her lemonade stand into a non-profit business to raise money to help people with cystic fibrosis. Cassidy Evans, who is 10, set up her first lemonade stand outs...

Toronto police are warning about a batch of dangerous narcotics being sold downtown after seven overdose deaths in the city since Aug. 2. Police say they believe the drugs responsible are a deadly bat...

Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government has announced new plans for how the province would sell recreational cannabis. Here’s a look at provincial and territorial plans to date: ...

TORONTO - A day after announcing plans to sell recreational cannabis in private stores, the Ontario government said it was still working out how strict regulations governing the new system would be en...

MONTREAL - Close friends and relatives of homicide victims can soon be compensated for costs associated with attending the killer’s trial, Quebec’s justice minister announced Tuesday. By t...