Category Archives: Canada
Dyed hair, similar builds behind mix-up of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - One family got the worst news, the other the best. After believing Humboldt Broncos hockey player Parker Tobin had survived the team’s bus crash late last week in Saskatchewan,...
Apr 09, 2018
Spring storm wallops Atlantic Canada with heavy snowfall, gusty winds
HALIFAX - A spring storm has closed schools and delayed business openings in parts of Atlantic Canada. Western Newfoundland and Labrador were getting heavy snowfall, along with winds expected to gust ...
Apr 09, 2018
Accused killer found Johnston kissing another man, Halifax jury told
HALIFAX - A witness testified Monday that he was becoming intimate with Montreal-born yoga instructor Kristin Johnston when Nicholas Butcher unexpectedly came into the bedroom, hours before he alleged...
Apr 09, 2018
Speaker of New Brunswick legislature to fight 'baseless' harassment allegation
FREDERICTON - The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature plans to fight allegations of harassment “tooth and nail,” his lawyer said Monday. T.J. Burke says Chris Collins is devastated th...
Apr 09, 2018
In the news today, April 9
Six stories in the news for Monday, April 9 --- BRONCOS PASTOR RECALLS THE ‘VALLEY OF DARKNESS’ Thousands gathered last night to remember the 15 people who died when the Humboldt Broncos&#...
Apr 09, 2018
'We remember the chaos:' Parents of twins killed on bobsled track attend inquiry
CALGARY - The parents of teenage twins who died during an after-hours run down Canada Olympic Park’s luge-bobsled track two years ago say they try not to dwell on the details of what happened an...
Apr 09, 2018
B.C. takes new approach to testing older drivers, some ask if ageism a factor
VICTORIA - Frank Harding is 98 years old and most days he drives his 1990 Volvo sedan to the Comox Recreation Centre where he works out. One summer, the resident of Courtenay, B.C., said he drove acro...
Apr 09, 2018
Canadian firms have work to do on reducing gender pay gap, says U.K. report
MONTREAL - Some of Canada’s largest banks, engineering firms, retailers and other companies pay their female British employees substantially less than their male counterparts and give out lower ...
Apr 09, 2018
QuickQuotes on Kinder Morgan suspending Trans Mountain spending
Kinder Morgan says it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Some quotes: “As KML has repeatedly stated, we will be jud...
Apr 08, 2018
Trans Mountain pipeline on hold as pressure mounts on B.C. to drop opposition
CALGARY - The future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was cast in doubt on Sunday as Kinder Morgan Canada suspended all non-essential activities and related spending on the project in the face...
Apr 08, 2018