Category Archives: Canada
Agreement reached to connect 16 northern Ontario First Nations to power grid
TORONTO - A new agreement between Ontario First Nations, the federal government and the province will see 16 northern communities connected to the power grid in a $1.6-billion project that will end th...
Mar 22, 2018

Killings prompt review of Toronto police handling of missing persons cases
TORONTO - How Toronto police handled the cases of men missing from the city’s gay village will undergo some form of external review in light of six murder charges laid against an alleged serial ...
Mar 22, 2018
Authorities offer testing after Nain, N.L., death likely caused by tuberculosis
NAIN, N.L. - Health authorities are saying the death of a Labrador youth is likely due to tuberculosis. The Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Health and Community Services issued a statement Thu...
Mar 22, 2018
No charges against Quebec reporter in alleged case of criminal harassment
MONTREAL - No charges will be laid against a Quebec reporter accused of criminally harassing a woman who was the subject of one of his stories, Crown officials said Thursday. Radio-Canada said last we...
Mar 22, 2018
Feds to commit to timeline on eradicating tuberculosis in the North
OTTAWA - The federal government is about to announce a timeline for eradicating tuberculosis in the north. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott and Natan Obed, head of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, o...
Mar 22, 2018

NATO trying to get better at predicting Russia's next move: Latvian commander
OTTAWA - While NATO is determined to improve its ability to predict the Kremlin’s next move, a senior Latvian commander concedes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to keep the mil...
Mar 22, 2018

Ottawa to consider three new marine conservation areas off Nova Scotia's coast
HALIFAX - Canada’s Ocean Playground could soon have three new marine conservation areas. The federal Fisheries Department announced the proposed sites off the coast of Nova Scotia on Thursday, s...
Mar 22, 2018

'No words to explain,' grieving father of slain teens says in statement
TORONTO - A grief-stricken father whose former spouse and two teenage children were killed in their suburban Ontario home last week expressed gratitude Thursday for what he called the outpouring of pu...
Mar 22, 2018

Spy agency chief says new powers would help stop cyberattacks before they happen
OTTAWA - The head of Canada’s cyberspy agency says new powers proposed by the Trudeau government would let her institution stop cyberattacks before they are launched - instead of having to sit b...
Mar 22, 2018
Municipal official in Nanaimo, B.C., subject of peace bond application
NANAIMO, B.C. - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has approved the application to have a senior municipal official in Nanaimo bound by the terms of a peace bond, the province’s prosecutio...
Mar 22, 2018