Category Archives: Canada

With wind in her sails, 'Steeltown Scrapper' eyeing Ontario premier's office
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Sitting behind a small table at the back of her campaign bus as it rumbles down the highway, Andrea Horwath ponders the winding road that has led her to the very doors of the pr...
Jun 05, 2018

Tory Leader Doug Ford combats criticism to fight for election win
TORONTO - The Ontario election would be Doug Ford’s to lose. At least that’s what polls and pundits suggested when the newly minted Progressive Conservative leader kicked off his campaign ...
Jun 05, 2018

Wynne fights for Liberals' survival after admitting party has lost race
TORONTO - In the final days of a volatile election campaign, Kathleen Wynne went from vying to stay on as Ontario’s premier to fighting for her party’s survival. The Liberal leader and lon...
Jun 05, 2018
Bertrand Charest: four more women obtain right to be identified by name
MONTREAL - Four more women who were assaulted or allegedly assaulted by ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest when they were younger obtained the right on Tuesday to be identified by name. A Quebec S...
Jun 05, 2018
Newfoundland high schooler faces three separate sexual assault trials
STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - A teenager is in court this week for the first of three trials on sexual assault allegations that shook a Newfoundland high school and spurred the province to update safety polici...
Jun 05, 2018

Two people killed two Edmonton convenience store workers on same night: Crown
EDMONTON - Karanpal Singh Bhangu and Ricky Cenabre met the same fate minutes apart while working alone on a night shift at two different Mac’s convenience stores in south Edmonton. Each clerk wa...
Jun 05, 2018

Patients stuck at Halifax forensic hospital for years, rights inquiry told
HALIFAX - Patients who had been conditionally released from a Halifax forensic psychiatric hospital weren’t allowed to leave because they were stuck on waiting lists for up to six years for a su...
Jun 05, 2018

Sajjan defends delay in completion of inquiry into military college suicides
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is sticking up for his department in the face of angry complaints from family members who want to see the results of an internal inquiry into the deaths of thre...
Jun 05, 2018
Quebec anti-corruption unit denies report that case is being delayed by Crown
MONTREAL - Quebec police authorities as well as the Crown have denied a media report alleging an investigation by the province’s anti-corruption unit targeting ex-Liberal party fundraisers is be...
Jun 05, 2018

N.S. looking for more foster parents, especially African Nova Scotians
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia needs more foster parents - with a particular emphasis on African Nova Scotians - even after the recruitment of 80 new foster parents, officials told a legislature committee on T...
Jun 05, 2018