Category Archives: Canada
Quebec towns press province for more power to protect drinking water
MONTREAL - Representatives from 338 Quebec municipalities that are calling on the province to grant them increased power to protect their water supplies said Saturday that they’re ready to take ...
Mar 24, 2018

Anti-pipeline protesters continue demonstrations at Burnaby terminal
BURNABY, B.C. - Dozens of Indigenous youth and other demonstrators gathered at Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Terminal on Saturday, in the latest in a string of protests this past week against the expa...
Mar 24, 2018

Dead whale could be species not typically found in Nova Scotia waters
HALIFAX - A pilot whale that washed ashore in Nova Scotia could be a species that’s rarely seen in northern waters, the Marine Animal Response Team said Saturday. Andrew Reid, the team’s r...
Mar 24, 2018

How Cambridge Analytica billionaire got his big break from Canadian bilingualism
WASHINGTON - The controversy over Facebook data gathering has a Canadian backstory far older than the adventures of the young whistleblower from British Columbia who worked for the contentious firm Ca...
Mar 24, 2018

Canadian cities hold March for Our Lives events in the wake of Parkland shooting
MONTREAL - More than a dozen Canadian cities hosted marches Saturday to call for stricter gun control laws in both Canada and the United States, adding their voices to a global movement calling for ch...
Mar 24, 2018
Canadian cities hold March for our Lives events in the wake of Parkland shooting
MONTREAL - More than a dozen Canadian cities are hosting marches to call for stricter gun control laws in both Canada and the United States in the wake of a deadly high school shooting that killed 17 ...
Mar 24, 2018

New Brunswick man reaches halfway point of 3,000-kilometre dog sled trek
A New Brunswick man making a 3,000-kilometre dog sled trek from Manitoba to his home province says the journey thus far has been “a mix of beauty and terror.” Justin Allen and his 12 Alask...
Mar 24, 2018

Liberals establish road map for talks to legislate a right to housing
OTTAWA - The federal government is offering the first initial hints of how it plans to go about creating a new right to housing, raising more questions about just how far the Trudeau Liberals plan to ...
Mar 24, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to exonerate Tsilhqot'in warriors hanged in 1860s
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to formally exonerate six First Nations war chiefs more than 150 years after they were hanged by British Columbia’s colonial government followi...
Mar 24, 2018

Funeral service held for slain Ajax, Ont., woman and her two children
TORONTO - Hundreds of classmates, friends and relatives gathered on Saturday to mourn the deaths of a mother and her two children in Ajax, Ont. earlier this month. Krassimira Pejcinovski and her 15-ye...
Mar 24, 2018