Category Archives: Canada
Quebec labour tribunal sides with employer in cat-bereavement spat
MONTREAL - Chantal Dumais says her little two-and-a-half-year-old cat, Juliette, was like a member of her family. So when the Montreal-area resident opened her door in June 2015 and saw her beloved pe...
Aug 01, 2018

Opposition parties blast minister for 'dangerous' EpiPen shortage, demand a fix
OTTAWA - The federal opposition parties called on the Trudeau government Wednesday to urgently address the shortage of life-saving epinephrine auto-injectors, known as EpiPens. But the Conservatives a...
Aug 01, 2018
Search continues for entangled right whale spotted in the Bay of Fundy
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - A day after heavy fog forced searchers to retreat back to shore, the hunt for an entangled North Atlantic right whale resumed Wednesday in the Bay of Fundy. The whale, identified a...
Aug 01, 2018
Disputed frozen embryo awarded to ex-wife; contract law applies, judge rules
TORONTO - A frozen embryo sold to a now divorced couple belongs to the ex-wife and can be implanted in her, an Ontario court has ruled in what appears to be a precedent-setting case. The decision as t...
Aug 01, 2018

Expect job market moderation in the months ahead, internal memo tells Morneau
OTTAWA - An internal federal analysis foresees a stretch of job-market moderation in Canada’s near future following an extended period of healthy employment growth - an economic shift expected t...
Aug 01, 2018

Banff RCMP searching for coal miners lamp that disappeared from ghost town
BANFF, Alta. - Police are asking for help finding a 1900s-era coal miners lamp that was removed from a historic site in Banff National Park. Banff RCMP received a report on Saturday that the artifact ...
Aug 01, 2018

Ten years after his death, Montreal teen's supporters deplore lack of recognition
MONTREAL - Supporters of a Montreal teen who was killed by a city police officer in 2008 are lamenting the lack of any kind of lasting memorial in his honour as they prepare to mark the 10-year annive...
Aug 01, 2018

Ontario government defends move to axe basic income pilot project
TORONTO - As anti-poverty advocates denounced the Ontario government’s decision to scrap a basic income pilot project, the province defended the move Wednesday by suggesting the program discoura...
Aug 01, 2018

Myanmar leader removed from display at Canadian Museum for Human Rights
WINNIPEG - Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be removed from a display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over the humanitarian crisis facing her country’s Rohingya Muslims. The ...
Aug 01, 2018
Lightning storms across B.C. raise tension as wildfire danger climbs
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Lightning storms that swept across British Columbia are being blamed by the Wildfire Service for many of the blazes that started this week across the province including one that threa...
Aug 01, 2018