Category Archives: Canada
'Like magic:' Delicate fossil of oldest baby snake found in amber
EDMONTON - It curves elegantly, its delicate bones looking as if they could easily slither out of the amber encasing them into the forest undergrowth that would have been home. The oldest fossil of a ...
Jul 18, 2018
Coroner who didn't probe Wettlaufer victim death testifies at inquiry
A coroner who failed to find anything suspicious about the deaths of two people killed by an Ontario nurse told a public inquiry Wednesday that he never considered the possibility that a caregiver in ...
Jul 18, 2018
Hundreds of European travellers stuck in Montreal after airline cancels flights
MONTREAL - During their two-week Canadian vacation, Jessie Brillouet and her three friends visited Niagara Falls and went whale watching in Tadoussac, Que. - but they’ve also seen more of Montre...
Jul 18, 2018
Long-term equitable recovery services needed to manage addiction in B.C.: report
VANCOUVER - When the daily partying, boozing and cocaine binges following high school left him homeless and living in a tent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Josh McDearmid believed his life wo...
Jul 18, 2018
Incident with Niagara reporter was violation of rights: Ontario ombudsman
TORONTO - Municipal staff in Niagara Region violated a reporter’s charter rights when they seized his equipment and called police after assuming he was trying to record a closed council meeting,...
Jul 18, 2018
Recently cut Ottawa Redblack Teague Sherman charged with sexual assault
Ottawa police have confirmed former Redblacks defensive back Teague Sherman has been charged with two counts of sexual assault. Police say Sherman was charged last week, but did not provide further de...
Jul 18, 2018
Parks Canada to acquire 1,325 hectares to expand Bruce Peninsula National Park
TORONTO - Parks Canada says it has reached an agreement to acquire a privately owned parcel of land in Ontario’s Georgian Bay area to expand the Bruce Peninsula National Park. The 1,324-hectare ...
Jul 18, 2018
Condos rushing to ban pot smoking before legalization, leaving some residents fuming
TORONTO - Gerald Major goes out on the back balcony of his condo several times a day, leaning against the wall and smoking or vaping medicinal cannabis to ease the pain and other symptoms of severe ar...
Jul 18, 2018
HMCS Ville de Quebec departs Halifax with new Cyclone helicopter aboard
HALIFAX - Hundreds of people gathered on a jetty at Halifax’s naval base Wednesday to bid farewell to 240 military members aboard HMCS Ville de Quebec as it headed to the Mediterranean as part o...
Jul 18, 2018
An updated list of federal cabinet ministers following Wednesday's shuffle
OTTAWA - An updated list of federal cabinet ministers following Wednesday’s shuffle, by order of precedence: - Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister - Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emerg...
Jul 18, 2018