Category Archives: Canada
Students, teachers gather to mourn teen killed in Greektown shooting
TORONTO - High school students and teachers interrupted their summer vacations on Tuesday to mourn a teen killed in a shooting spree in Toronto’s Greektown over the weekend, remembering her as a...
Jul 24, 2018
An introduction to Canadian firearm ownership laws
TORONTO - A look at firearm regulations in Canada: Types of firearms Canadian law separates guns into three different categories: non-restricted, restricted and prohibited. A licence, obtained through...
Jul 24, 2018

Trade Tribunal finds subsidies and dumping of steel products causing harm
OTTAWA - The Canadian International Trade Tribunal says it has found there is a reasonable indication that dumping and subsidizing of some steel products by several Asian countries have harmed or coul...
Jul 24, 2018

Rail manager guilty in case of train left on B.C. mountainside without handbrakes
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - A manager with Canadian Pacific Railway has been found guilty for his role in illegally parking a train carrying dangerous materials on a mountainside near Revelstoke, B.C. A B.C. p...
Jul 24, 2018
Ontario's fiscal watchdog to probe the cancellation of cap and trade
TORONTO - Ontario’s fiscal watchdog said Tuesday it will examine the new Progressive Conservative government’s cancellation of the cap-and-trade program in order to determine how much that...
Jul 24, 2018

Montreal filmmaker Harry Gulkin, known for 'Lies My Father Told Me,' dies at 90
Montreal-born filmmaker Harry Gulkin, best known for the 1975 movie, “Lies My Father Told Me,” is being remembered as a passionate, generous and funny man who was a great defender of the f...
Jul 24, 2018
B.C. police say 7-year-old girl died of homicide, woman is in medical care
LANGLEY, B.C. - Police say a seven-year-old girl whose body was found at an apartment complex in Langley, B.C., is the victim of a homicide. Police and emergency health services were called at about 9...
Jul 24, 2018
Family angry top general rejected stigma as factor in RMC student's suicide
OTTAWA - The father of a Royal Military College student who took his own life says the family is upset that Canada’s top general rejected a board of inquiry’s finding that stigma around se...
Jul 24, 2018

Ottawa spells out new measures to reduce number of migrants in jail
OTTAWA - The federal government plans to rely on electronic monitoring, telephone reporting and community supervision to avoid locking up migrants while they await immigration hearings. The government...
Jul 24, 2018
Fate of Ontario safe injection, overdose prevention sites in limbo
TORONTO - The fate of Ontario’s safe injection and overdose prevention sites is in limbo as the province’s new Progressive Conservative government weighs whether to continue funding the fa...
Jul 24, 2018