Category Archives: Canada
Wildfires ravage 27 structures in Telegraph Creek in northwest B.C.: officials
VANCOUVER - Wildfires have ravaged 27 structures in Telegraph Creek, representing 30 to 45 per cent of buildings in the small northwestern British Columbia community, officials say. Tahltan Band Chief...
Aug 07, 2018
Quebec City man electrocuted, possibly while shaving; cops, coroner probe death
QUEBEC - Police say a Quebec City man who died overnight may have been electrocuted by his own razor. Local police received a call just after midnight Tuesday about an unconscious man in an apartment ...
Aug 07, 2018
High-profile cop to run for Coalition Avenir Quebec: party source
MONTREAL - The surging Coalition Avenir Quebec has nabbed a highly visible member of the Montreal police force to run for the party in the upcoming provincial election campaign. Ian Lafreniere, who ha...
Aug 07, 2018
Saudi students given four weeks to leave Canada, even if studies not completed
MONTREAL - Saudi students in Canadian universities have been given four weeks to pack their bags and leave the country, two senior university officials said Tuesday. Universities across the country we...
Aug 07, 2018
Crews to remove oil from decades-old shipwreck off Newfoundland coast
TWILLINGATE, N.L. - More than three decades after the Manolis L sunk off Newfoundland’s picturesque Notre Dame Bay, the tricky task of extracting leaking bulk oil from the shipwreck has begun. T...
Aug 07, 2018
'Rage and revenge': Businessman fatally shoots dog that attacked his own pet
CORNER BROOK, N.L. - A “well-respected” 79-year-old businessman has been sentenced to house arrest after hunting down and fatally shooting a dog in revenge for attacking his own pet. Georg...
Aug 07, 2018
In the news today, Aug. 7
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 7 --- FREELAND DEFENDS CANADA’S SAUDI STANCE Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Ottawa is waiting to hear more details from Saudi Arabia b...
Aug 07, 2018
Firefighters making progress battling 120 forest fires across northern Ontario
TORONTO - Rain and unwavering efforts by firefighters have led to progress in the battle against forest fires in northern Ontario. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources said Tuesday there has been...
Aug 07, 2018
Feds to test limits of Indigenous housing ideas through new contest
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are offering Indigenous communities $30 million in prize money as part of a contest that could end up rewriting the rules about how the federal government funds badly nee...
Aug 06, 2018
Meteorologist says Manitoba tornado had destructive power similar to Edmonton's
ALONSA, Man. - An Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist says a tornado that killed a man in Manitoba may have had similar destructive power as the deadly twister that struck Edmonton mor...
Aug 06, 2018