Category Archives: Canada
Why a 14-year-old will lead the charge at annual marijuana protest on the Hill
OTTAWA - At the age of 11, Emma Boniface watched her mother lose herself in the grasp of an opioid addiction. Diagnosed with a debilitating spinal condition in 2013, Genevieve Gendron was prescribed f...
Apr 19, 2018
Hundreds apply to see or block the opening of adoption records in New Brunswick
FREDERICTON - Just weeks after the New Brunswick government opened a century of adoption records there is growing interest from people who want to know more about their past, and those who want that i...
Apr 19, 2018
Alberta university criticized for plan to bestow honorary degree on David Suzuki
EDMONTON - The University of Alberta is being criticized for its decision to give David Suzuki an honorary degree. Earlier this month, the university announced that the longtime environmentalist will ...
Apr 19, 2018
Man accused of killing Abbotsford, B.C., school girl is unfit for trial: lawyer
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A defence lawyer says his client’s ongoing psychosis makes him unfit to stand trial for the murder of a high school girl in Abbotsford, B.C. Martin Peters said Gabriel Kl...
Apr 19, 2018
Montreal couple hoping city lets them keep beloved pet pig named Babe
MONTREAL - Babe the pig spends his days sleeping, going for walks on a leash or lounging around the Montreal condo he shares with his owners, their baby and three cats. His owners, Mario Ramos and Sar...
Apr 19, 2018
P.E.I. vet performs career first in operation on 50-gram dwarf hamster
NEW PERTH, P.E.I. - A veterinarian in Prince Edward Island successfully operated on her smallest patient ever earlier this week - a 50-gram dwarf hamster named Mr. Nibbles. “Somebody was asking ...
Apr 19, 2018
Supreme Court decision means an end to cross-border beer runs: Comeau
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick man whose beer run to Quebec in 2012 sparked a constitutional battle over cross-border liquor sales says the Supreme Court of Canada has put an end to his beer-buying tri...
Apr 19, 2018
'I miss my father terribly': daughter of man shot dead in 2017 mosque shooting
QUEBEC - The 14-year-old daughter of the man considered a hero after he died trying to stop the Quebec City mosque shooter gave moving testimony Thursday about how much she misses her father. In betwe...
Apr 19, 2018
Toronto Police Services Board names working group for missing persons review
TORONTO - The Toronto police civilian oversight board has established a working group that will lay out the parameters for an external review of how the force handles missing persons cases. The board ...
Apr 19, 2018
Supreme Court beer ruling could apply to Alberta-B.C. pipeline war, experts say
CALGARY - A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on bringing beer from Quebec into New Brunswick has implications for the trade war between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, exper...
Apr 19, 2018