Category Archives: Canada

SUTHERLANDS RIVER, N.S. - It’s been called a 38-kilometre death trap, a treacherous stretch of Nova Scotia highway that in the last decade has seen hundreds of accidents, multiple fatalities and...

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, July 17 --- MPs AGREE TO SUMMER STUDY OF ASYLUM SEEKERS The House of Commons immigration committee has agreed to meet at least twice before early August to study ...

OTTAWA - Physicians are calling on the federal government to shell out another $21 billion over the next decade to help provinces and territories pay for soaring health care costs that will be propell...

OTTAWA - Algonquin College in eastern Ontario says it is advising students and alumni that hackers have infiltrated a server infected with malware. The Ottawa-based college says the “unauthorize...

VANCOUVER - The former RCMP constable who fired a Taser at a Polish immigrant at Vancouver’s airport has dropped his appeal of a 30-month jail sentence he received after being convicted of perju...

TORONTO - The mother of two young girls who were hit by stray bullets at a Toronto playground last month called Monday for better education and community support programs, not increased police presenc...

SAINT-FELIX-DE-VALOIS, Que. - A six-year-old girl has died after being struck by a vehicle at a camping ground 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal. The accident occurred Monday in Saint-Felix-de-Valoi...

MONTREAL - As more than 125,000 construction workers in Quebec get ready to lay down tools for their annual two-week vacation, there appears to be little anecdotal evidence of any systemic boycott of ...

A Vancouver radio reporter says people on social media, including a vocal British politician, should be more careful about spreading fake news. Lasia Kretzel was working for CKOM in Saskatoon in 2015 ...

Unusual patterns of deaths in long-term care homes are not always tracked or analyzed because some death reports are not filed electronically, as rules require, the province’s chief coroner said...