Category Archives: Canada
He said he would always come home, says spouse of officer killed in Fredericton
Const. Robb Costello would often tell his spouse that no matter what happened to him on the job, he would always come home. On Friday, the Fredericton officer didn’t return. Instead, police show...
Aug 10, 2018
Judge approves eviction of protesters from camp near pipeline construction site
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has granted the City of Burnaby an injunction forcing pipeline protesters to take down their camp outside a Kinder Morgan terminal. Justice Geoffrey ...
Aug 10, 2018
Fisheries and Oceans quietly cancels plans to award Indigenous surf clam licence
OTTAWA - The federal government says it has cancelled plans to issue a controversial clam fishing licence to a First Nations company with ties to the Liberal party and several sitting Liberal MPs - in...
Aug 10, 2018

Hells Angels arrive near Montreal for weekend national meeting
SAINT-CHARLES-SUR-RICHELIEU, Canada - Authorities ramped up checkpoints and their overall presence east of Montreal on Friday as members of the Hells Angels and their sympathizers continued to arrive ...
Aug 10, 2018

U.S. President Trump threatens auto tariffs against Canada if trade talks fail
OTTAWA - Donald Trump launched a fresh auto-tariff threat against Canada late Friday at a time when Ottawa finds itself in a holding pattern on NAFTA negotiations as it awaits the completion of one-on...
Aug 10, 2018

Fredericton woman was also nearby as Danforth gun attack unfolded
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton woman who heard sirens responding to Friday morning’s shooting had also been on Toronto’s Danforth Avenue as another deadly gun attack unfolded last month. Gunf...
Aug 10, 2018

'There's just nothing left:' Cottage in family for generations lost to wildfire
Jane Lee had heard about the forest fires burning many kilometres away from her family cottage but hadn’t seen smoke or other signs of a blaze when she and other relatives gathered at the retrea...
Aug 10, 2018

Fredericton shootings are fresh trauma for N.B., four years after Moncton attack
FREDERICTON - Family members of three RCMP officers killed in a 2014 Moncton attack say the Fredericton shooting deaths will bring a fresh wave of trauma to New Brunswick - and bring painful memories ...
Aug 10, 2018
'I am just shaking:' What people saw and heard during the Fredericton shooting
Residents of a tranquil Fredericton neighbourhood watched and waited for nearly three anxious hours early Friday as authorities tracked down a suspect who allegedly opened fire and killed four people,...
Aug 10, 2018
Toronto mayor urges Ford to hit 'pause button' on plan to slash council
TORONTO - The people of Toronto should have a voice when it comes to the size of their local government, Mayor John Tory said Friday as he called on the province to hit the “pause button” ...
Aug 10, 2018