Category Archives: Canada
Man charged in Toronto gay village death seeks bail
TORONTO - A man accused of killing a young woman in Toronto’s gay village last year is seeking bail at a two-day hearing that began Tuesday. Kalen Schlatter is charged with first-degree murder i...
Jul 24, 2018
With focus on Mexico, apprehensions grow at the U.S. - Canada border
DERBY LINE, Vt. - While the Trump administration fortifies the southern border, there’s growing concern over the number of foreigners entering the country illegally across the porous northern bo...
Jul 24, 2018
Court rejects Quebec's bid to ban citizens' access to private online gaming sites
MONTREAL - Quebec’s attempt to ban its citizens’ access to online gaming websites unauthorized by the state-run gambling corporation is unconstitutional because it infringes upon federal j...
Jul 24, 2018

'I would love a cheque': MacLeod wants $200 million from feds on border issue
OTTAWA - Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s minister responsible for immigration, says the province is asking the federal government for $200 million to cover the cost of asylum seekers from the United Sta...
Jul 24, 2018
B.C. expands campfire bans amid wildfires and heat warnings
VANCOUVER - More campfire bans are being imposed as the fire danger rating rises along with temperatures in British Columbia. Starting Thursday, campfires will be prohibited in the Kamloops Fire Centr...
Jul 24, 2018
Officials: 21 of 55 Ontario forest fires remain out of control
TORONTO - Firefighters were battling 55 forest fires as of late Monday in northeast Ontario, of which 21 were not yet under control. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said one of the fire...
Jul 24, 2018

In the news today, July 24
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, July 24 --- SURGE IN ILLEGAL GUNS SOURCED IN CANADA The number of guns obtained legally in Canada but are then sold to people who use them for criminal purposes s...
Jul 24, 2018

'Tough and resilient' people make isolated Manitoba community home
CHURCHILL, Man. - Florence Hamilton’s ancestors once followed the caribou across the Arctic tundra. That was before the federal government forcefully relocated the Sayisi Dene to barren land out...
Jul 24, 2018

B.C.'s North Shore Search and Rescue concerned with commercial guided weed hikes
VANCOUVER - One of British Columbia’s busiest rescue teams is warning backcountry hikers not to get high on their hike. Curtis Jones with B.C.’s North Shore Search and Rescue said the stat...
Jul 24, 2018

Incidents like Toronto mass shooting can leave psychological wounds: experts
TORONTO - Deadly incidents such as April’s van attack and Sunday’s mass shooting in Greektown may have residents feeling as if Toronto the Good has become Murder City Canada, and has left ...
Jul 24, 2018