Category Archives: Canada

Canada spends millions housing and feeding border crossers, detains only some
OTTAWA - As the United States faces mounting criticism over its treatment and detention of illegal migrants, new statistics released by the federal government show Canada’s treatment of irregula...
Jun 26, 2018

Canada's largest national park, UNESCO site threatened: environmental assessment
Federal documents echo earlier concerns that Canada’s largest national park faces long-term threats that could place it on a list of endangered world heritage sites. An environmental assessment ...
Jun 26, 2018

Two men guilty of polygamy given conditional sentences, served as house arrest
CRANBROOK, B.C. - Two men who took multiple wives - some as young as 15 - will serve no time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday. Winston Blackmore, 61,...
Jun 26, 2018
Architect of modern Quebec education system dies at 98; state funeral planned
MONTREAL - Paul Gerin-Lajoie, a key architect of education system reforms in Quebec during the 1960s, has died at the age of 98. The foundation he created in 1977 says he died on Monday surrounded by ...
Jun 25, 2018

Almost half of caregivers of loved ones with dementia experience distress: report
TORONTO - For the last five years, Catherine Kelly and her partner have been providing live-in care for her mother, who developed vascular dementia after suffering a stroke in 2008. As parents of two ...
Jun 25, 2018

Finance ministers discuss tariffs as Ottawa finalizes retaliation to Trump
OTTAWA - Finance ministers from across the country weighed the consequences Tuesday of Canada’s intensifying trade dispute with the United States as the federal government worked to finalize det...
Jun 25, 2018
Unionized Halifax shipbuilders vote in favour of four-year collective agreement
HALIFAX - The union at the Halifax shipyard that’s building the next generation of Royal Canadian Navy vessels says workers have voted in favour of ratifying a new four-year collective agreement...
Jun 25, 2018

Winged dragon sculpture vanishes from its perch in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia artist built her dragon sculpture with wings, but she never thought it would leave its perch without her help. Heather Wall says she thinks Rock Dragon 2.0 disappear...
Jun 25, 2018

Judge named to lead review of Toronto police handling of missing person cases
TORONTO - The Toronto Police Services Board says it has retained an Ontario Appeal Court judge to lead an external review into how the police force handles cases of missing persons. The board says in ...
Jun 25, 2018
Canada asks Japan to clarify adoption stand, grants visas to stranded families
VANCOUVER - The Canadian government says it is processing visas for families who were near the end of the adoption process in Japan after five of them were stranded for weeks in a bureaucratic impasse...
Jun 25, 2018