Category Archives: Canada
Accused's mother in 'disbelief' after 3 boys killed by alleged drunk driver
NELSON HOUSE, Man. - The mother of a man charged with impaired driving after three boys were killed in a northern Manitoba community says her heart and soul are broken. “(I am) still in disbelie...
May 01, 2018

Ford reverses course on Greenbelt development, says he'll maintain protected area
TORONTO - Doug Ford is reversing a plan to open a large protected green space around the Toronto region to housing development if elected premier this spring. The Progressive Conservative leader says ...
May 01, 2018
Procedure aims to ease symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression
TORONTO - For the last seven years, Sky Zazlov has been fighting the demon of major depressive disorder - and none of the numerous medications, myriad types of therapy or other interventions she has t...
May 01, 2018

Newfoundland and Labrador premier under increasing fire amid harassment claims
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Harassment allegations gripped Newfoundland and Labrador’s governing Liberals again Tuesday after former finance minister Cathy Bennett said a culture of intimidation he...
May 01, 2018

Israeli spymaster talks Iran, Syria, Russia and populism in Ottawa meetings
OTTAWA - A top Israeli intelligence official is in Ottawa seeking support for his country’s new allegations that Iran concealed a nuclear weapons program before signing its deal with world power...
May 01, 2018

Bains to tell business: it's your turn to boost diversity, and the bottom line
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has done its part with measures to bolster diversity on corporate boards at publicly traded companies, and now is the time for business leaders to pick up the torch, sa...
May 01, 2018

Air passenger rights, rail shipping legislation heads for political showdown
OTTAWA - Western grain farmers are on the verge of getting some long-sought federal help against the threat of rail backlogs, but face seeing their relief delayed over threats of political gamesmanshi...
May 01, 2018

Eby cancels tax town hall in Point Grey riding over safety, blames Liberals
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Attorney General David Eby says he cancelled a town hall meeting on a property-tax increase amid security concerns ignited by the leader of the Opposition. Eby said he bec...
May 01, 2018

The inside story of the unsolved murders of a Canadian and an American in Belize
It has been one year since the bodies of Francesca Matus and her American lover were found tangled together in a sugar cane field in Belize. The urn holding the Canadian woman’s ashes now sits i...
May 01, 2018

MPs vote overwhelmingly to call on Pope again for residential schools apology
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament on all sides of the House of Commons voted Tuesday to extend a formal invitation to Pope Francis to apologize in person to Indigenous Peoples for decades of abuse meted ...
May 01, 2018