Category Archives: Canada

N.S. sawmill museum blames closure on Canada Summer Jobs abortion controversy
METEGHAN RIVER, N.S. - A small Nova Scotia museum has “closed indefinitely” after it said it was denied federal funding for refusing to conform to a controversial abortion rights clause in...
Jun 07, 2018

Epilepsy double national average in Indigenous population: study
SASKATOON - A new study suggests that the incidence of epilepsy among Indigenous Canadians is twice that of non-Indigenous people. Research from the University of Saskatchewan showed a national rate a...
Jun 07, 2018

Checking cookies for cannabis could be challenging: Manitoba premier
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he will consider closing a loophole that allows people to eat marijuana-infused brownies and other homemade edibles in public places when cannabis is f...
Jun 07, 2018
Nova Scotia man pleads guilty to illegally entering the United States: RCMP
HALIFAX - A former tennis instructor facing child exploitation charges in Nova Scotia has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the United States on May 31, the RCMP say. The Mounties also confirmed Aa...
Jun 07, 2018

Montreal isn't properly following Quebec's flag protocol: complainants
MONTREAL - There’s a flap in Montreal over the Quebec flag. Two Montrealers are accusing the city of violating rules set out in provincial legislation that state the Fleur-de-lis should have ...
Jun 07, 2018

Trudeau stops in heart of Canada’s aluminum country before G7 confrontation
SAGUENAY, Que. - Just before he headed to the G7 summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a stop in the heart of Canada’s aluminum country - where he repeated his pledge to try to convince Don...
Jun 07, 2018

Canada has removed only a fraction of thousands of illegal border crossers
OTTAWA - Government data shows thousands of asylum seekers came into Canada illegally across the Canada-U.S. border through last year and the first quarter of this year, but only a fraction were remov...
Jun 07, 2018

Looking to the sky: B.C. company says it is sucking carbon from air, making fuel
It sounds like spinning straw into gold: suck carbon dioxide from the air where it’s contributing to climate change and turn it into fuel for cars, trucks and jets. A British Columbia company sa...
Jun 07, 2018
Atlantic First Nations create new foundation to pursue philanthropic funding
HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada’s First Nations communities have established a new foundation to help gain better access to hundreds of millions of charitable dollars that currently only trickle into ...
Jun 07, 2018

Household debt and housing remain key risks for financial system: Bank of Canada
OTTAWA - Canada’s housing market and high levels of consumer indebtedness remain the top vulnerabilities for the financial system, but both have shown signs of easing, according to the Bank of C...
Jun 07, 2018