Category Archives: Canada
Hot weather could cause more flood woes in parts of B.C. as damage assessed
VANCOUVER - An emergency operations official in southern British Columbia says a forecast of warm weather has residents bracing for the possibility of more flooding from melting snow while at least on...
May 11, 2018
Playoff hockey fever in Winnipeg bigger than glory days 40 years ago: alumni
Winnipeg was already in the grip of playoff fever. Now, with the National Hockey League Jets advancing to the Western Conference final - further than they have even been in the NHL - the frenzy has ju...
May 11, 2018
Canadian pot growers say marijuana byproduct a wasted opportunity for industry
VANCOUVER - Licensed marijuana producers in Canada are throwing out thousands of kilograms of plant waste each year in what some of them say is a missed opportunity to find other uses for the byproduc...
May 11, 2018
Tories want action against self-confessed terror recruit living in Toronto
OTTAWA - Conservative MPs say the government should be going after a Canadian who told a New York Times podcast that he shot people in the head as an executioner for Islamic State militants in Syria. ...
May 11, 2018
Tory staffer fired for urging senators to delay final vote on pot legalization
OTTAWA - Senators are being encouraged to postpone a vote on a bill to legalize recreational cannabis by a now-former employee of the Conservative’s chief critic of the legislation. Sen. Claude ...
May 11, 2018
Quebec judge invites province to recognize reality of multi-parent families
MONTREAL - A Quebec judge is inviting provincial lawmakers to consider the possibility of multi-parent families after a complex legal fight involving a little girl and three adults. The three-year-old...
May 11, 2018
Wynne says she isn't sure why Doug Ford has twice commented on her smile
PARRY SOUND, Ont. - Doug Ford has now commented twice on Kathleen Wynne’s smile, and the Liberal leader doesn’t know why. During a televised election debate Monday night, the Progressive C...
May 11, 2018
The top of Ontario: Isolated Fort Severn tries to chart its own course
FORT SEVERN, Ont. - You can’t get much further from the carpeted corridors of power in Ontario’s capital city without stepping onto the frozen waters of Hudson Bay. This is Fort Severn, On...
May 11, 2018
UN review calls out Canada's treatment of Indigenous Peoples
OTTAWA - Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council are urging Canada to improve its treatment of Indigenous people, in particular women and girls. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould repres...
May 11, 2018
'We gave up a lot:' Chief of most northern Ontario community hates handouts
FORT SEVERN, Ont. - Paul Burke is chief of the 463-strong Fort Severn First Nation, Ontario’s most northerly community, which is located near the mouth of the Severn River as it empties into Hud...
May 11, 2018