Category Archives: Canada
Letter containing suspicious white powder sent to Trump's envoy in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is offering supportive words for U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft after a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope addressed to the American emba...
Jun 15, 2018
Woman must pay musician ex-boyfriend $350K for sabotaging coveted opportunity
TORONTO - A woman who sabotaged her boyfriend’s highly coveted career opportunity apparently because she feared he would leave her for the United States has been ordered to pay him $350,000 in d...
Jun 15, 2018
Marathon voting session stalls pot bill, cancels Friday sitting of Commons
OTTAWA - Progress on the government’s cannabis legalization bill and all other work in the House of Commons was put on hold until next week, thanks to a Conservative filibuster that forced an al...
Jun 15, 2018
Federal report calls for reforms in, new funding for nature protection
OTTAWA - Canada needs to get its act together and pony up big bucks for wildland conservation if it’s going to reach its international commitments, says a federally commissioned report. It says ...
Jun 15, 2018
Party leaders ready for election campaign as Quebec legislative session winds down
The final legislative session ahead of October’s provincial election wrapped up Friday, and while parties have already started campaigning, Premier Philippe Couillard said Quebecers would rather...
Jun 15, 2018
Boy, 13, charged with first-degree murder after cyclist run down, stabbed:police
TORONTO - A 13-year-old boy is facing a murder charge after a cyclist was allegedly run down with an SUV and assaulted, Toronto police said Friday. Investigators said 19-year-old Aaron Rankine-Wright ...
Jun 15, 2018
Three missing after five thrown into water off Tofino, B.C., as boat sinks
TOFINO, B.C. - A search is underway in the waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island after a small boat carrying five people went down early Friday. Lt. Melissa Kia with the Joint Rescue Co-ordina...
Jun 15, 2018
'Gone for Canada Day:' Protest camp taken down at Saskatchewan legislature
REGINA - A months-old camp on the Saskatchewan legislature lawn where people had been protesting racial injustice and the disproportionate number of Indigenous children apprehended by child-welfare wo...
Jun 15, 2018
Beyak applauds survey that shows Canadians divided on Indigenous issues
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is applauding an online survey that suggests a majority of Canadians believe the government apologizes too much for residential schools and that Indigenous people should integ...
Jun 15, 2018
Owners of the rail line to Churchill had duty to fix it: regulators
WINNIPEG - Federal regulators have ruled that the owners of a broken rail line to Churchill were wrong not to repair the track that kept the northern Manitoba community connected to the outside world....
Jun 15, 2018