Category Archives: Canada
Amber Alert: facts and figures about the procedure
Montreal police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday afternoon for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, a 10-year-old boy who went missing Monday. Late on Tuesday night, they lifted the alert. Some facts about the Ambe...
Mar 14, 2018
Nothing sweet about sales of grey-market candy, Appeal Court rules
TORONTO - An attempt at sugar coating the sale of grey market Mars bars and M&M’s in Canada has fallen flat with Ontario’s top court, which sided with the Canadian maker of the candy i...
Mar 14, 2018
Lawyer seeking injunction says B.C. protesters bent on stopping Trans Mountain
VANCOUVER - Social media posts suggest anti-pipeline activists are determined to continue blockades at two terminals in Burnaby, B.C., as they cause more irreparable harm to the Trans Mountain project...
Mar 14, 2018
No inquiry necessary in case of slain Indigenous teen: Manitoba justice minister
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says it will not call a public inquiry into the death of an Indigenous girl whose body was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. Justice Minister Heather Stefanson sa...
Mar 14, 2018

Bionics breakthrough creates renewed sense of movement for amputees
FREDERICTON - Groundbreaking new research by Canadian and international scientists has found a way to give amputees a sense of movement in a prostheses, much like in a real limb. Jon Sensinger of the ...
Mar 14, 2018

Wild ride for purloined pooches after pickup truck stolen in Edmonton
EDMONTON - Two old English bulldogs named Rocky and Jersey are the focus of a police search for a pickup truck in which both pooches were waiting for their master when their ride was stolen this week ...
Mar 14, 2018

Nexen Energy pleads not guilty in oilsands explosion that killed two workers
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Nexen Energy has pleaded not guilty to eight charges stemming from a fatal explosion at the company’s oilsands site in northern Alberta. Drew Foster, who was 52 and from N...
Mar 14, 2018

Amid rally controversy, NDP's Singh rejects terrorism, preaches 'love, courage'
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued a blanket condemnation of terrorist acts Wednesday following media reports about his attendance at a California rally three years ago that sang the praises of ...
Mar 14, 2018

Police officer attacked: Suspect to go to trial in Edmonton on 12 charges
EDMONTON - A man accused in the attempted murder of an Edmonton police officer is facing a trial after two mental-health assessments found he’s fit to do so. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif faces 12 charg...
Mar 14, 2018

Vincent Coleman, the harbour ferry, begins service near Halifax Explosion site
HALIFAX - He is the ultimate hero of the Halifax Explosion: Vince Coleman saved a trainload of passengers at the cost of his own life. On Wednesday, a ferry named for the train dispatcher was put into...
Mar 14, 2018