Category Archives: Canada
N.S. minister now says advice on handling portal breach from staff, not police
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government was in damage-control mode Thursday as it modified its assertion that police had asked the Internal Services Department to hold off on releasing information about ...
Apr 12, 2018
Father of missing Montreal boy urges mayor to set up police abduction squad
MONTREAL - The father of a boy who has been missing for a month asked Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante and police Thursday to set up a squad that would specialize in investigating abductions. “Thir...
Apr 12, 2018
U.S. makes big trade moves: softens autos demand on NAFTA, explores TPP re-entry
WASHINGTON - In a pair of dramatic moves, the Trump administration has signalled a growing desire to secure new trade deals, softening one key demand in the NAFTA negotiations, then expressing an inte...
Apr 12, 2018
Border agents make 'significant' beer seizure at Lacolle crossing in Quebec
SAINT-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE, Que. - Border services in Quebec say agents have made a significant beer seizure at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing. A spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency s...
Apr 12, 2018
Peterborough teen scores invite to royal wedding for charity work
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - A fifteen-year-old southern Ontario girl has scored an invitation to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for her charity work. Faith Dickinson of Peterborough earned the...
Apr 12, 2018
Too many black, Indigenous kids in Ontario child-welfare system, report finds
TORONTO - Black and Indigenous children appear to be put into care in relatively far greater numbers than other racial groups in Ontario, according to a report released Thursday that makes an urgent c...
Apr 12, 2018
Trudeau government should make 'robust' reforms to info law, report card says
OTTAWA - The federal government should make “robust reforms” to the Access to Information Act to finally bring the law into the 21st century, says an independent report card on Canada̵...
Apr 12, 2018
Ottawa awards $15-million contract to remove oil from sunken freighter
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Ottawa has awarded a $15-million contract to a company to remove bulk oil from the Manolis L shipwreck off Newfoundland and Labrador. Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announ...
Apr 12, 2018
Butcher said 'sorry' after alleged killing, deceased officer says on video
HALIFAX - A blood-caked Nicholas Butcher told an officer he was “sorry” minutes after he informed a 911 dispatcher he had killed his girlfriend and tried to kill himself, the law school gr...
Apr 12, 2018
Canadian Blood Services says donations spiked after Humboldt Broncos bus crash
TORONTO - There’s been a national “spike” in donations of blood in the wake of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan that left 16 people dead and 13 others injured, the Cana...
Apr 12, 2018