Category Archives: Canada
Trans Mountain protester arrested, one day after court grants injunction
BURNABY, B.C. - Burnaby RCMP say they arrested a woman who chained herself to a work truck Friday morning, one day after the B.C. Supreme Court granted Trans Mountain an injunction against demonstrato...
Mar 16, 2018
RCMP believe two deaths in rural Saskatchewan may be drug overdoses
Police say two sudden deaths in a rural Saskatchewan community may be the result of drug overdoses. RCMP say the men were found when officers responded to a call about a death at a home in Maidstone n...
Mar 16, 2018
WestJet union drive helped by unhappiness with pay formula, says flight attendant
MONTREAL - Growing anger among WestJet flight attendants about a compensation model that restricts hourly wages to time actually spent in the sky bodes well for a unionization drive at the airline, ac...
Mar 16, 2018
Sex crime unit investigating allegations against Hedley's Jacob Hoggard: police
TORONTO - Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the embattled Canadian rock band Hedley, is being investigated by the Toronto police sex crime unit as allegations continue to plague the singer. Police spoke...
Mar 16, 2018
Quebec man in 2017 Amber Alert case pleads guilty to 4 counts
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A man accused of two murders following an Amber Alert in Quebec last year pleaded guilty Friday to four counts related to his flight from police. He pleaded guilty to dangerous op...
Mar 16, 2018
B.C. government, Metro Vancouver mayors agree on $7B transit expansion
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has come to an agreement with Metro Vancouver mayors to move ahead on a $7 billion transit expansion for the region. The provincial and federal governments ...
Mar 16, 2018
Society has role to play in trying to prevent domestic violence:experts
TORONTO - Canadians across the country should remember that they have a role to play in preventing tragedies like the recent domestic-related slaying of an Ontario mother and two of her teenage childr...
Mar 16, 2018
Alberta family murdered and burned: Four years later, friends still wonder why
CASTOR, Alta. - More than four years after three members of a central Alberta family were murdered, the biggest question still remains unanswered for their friends - why? “Still my question is, ...
Mar 16, 2018
NDP leader says Canada should declare anti-Sikh violence in 1984 a genocide
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than three decades ago was a genocide. Singh - who spent much of this week defending ...
Mar 16, 2018
Career criminal declared dangerous offender, will serve indeterminate sentence
EDMONTON - A judge in Edmonton has declared a career criminal whose violent attacks go back decades a dangerous offender. Lance Blanchard, 60, was in court Friday to hear the decision by Justice Eric ...
Mar 16, 2018