Category Archives: Canada
Toronto firefighter who went missing in New York state found in California
TORONTO - A Toronto firefighter who was the subject of an extensive six-day search at a New York ski centre has been found safe in California, leaving officials puzzled as to how the 49-year-old manag...
Feb 13, 2018

Cyberspies defend proposed new authority to go on the offensive
OTTAWA - A senior official from Canada’s cyberspy agency says proposed new powers would allow it to stop a terrorist’s mobile phone from detonating a car bomb, block the ability of extremi...
Feb 13, 2018
Canada contributing $12M to rebuilding critical infrastructure in Iraq
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is contributing another $12 million for reconstruction efforts in Iraq. She says the money will support the rebuilding of critical infra...
Feb 13, 2018
Study suggests Canadians taking prescription drugs cut groceries, heat spending
MONTREAL - Nearly one million Canadians opted for emptier grocery bags and colder homes in order to pay for prescription drugs in 2016, suggests a nationwide study on the topic published Tuesday. The ...
Feb 13, 2018
Board looks into allegations bodies switched at N.S. funeral home
HALIFAX - The family of a woman who was mistakenly cremated after a bizarre mix-up at a Nova Scotia funeral home declined to participate in an inquiry Tuesday, saying the process lacks transparency an...
Feb 13, 2018

A look at the evidence the jury considered in the Gerald Stanley murder trial
BATTLEFORD, Sask. - Gerald Stanley, a 56-year-old white farmer, shot Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous man, on Stanley’s property near Biggar, Sask., in the early evening of Aug. 9, 2016....
Feb 13, 2018
Vancouver man banned from dance club fails in bid for human rights hearing
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal won’t reconsider its refusal to hear a Vancouver man’s complaint that his dance club banned him for being “creepy,” and discriminated...
Feb 13, 2018

Divided New Democrats gathering in Ottawa to chart path to 2019 election
OTTAWA - New Democrats from across the country will begin gathering in the national capital on Thursday, hoping to lay the groundwork for victory in next year’s federal election - and to confron...
Feb 13, 2018
15-year prison term upheld for disgraced Mountie who tortured son in home's basement
TORONTO - A disgraced RCMP officer convicted of torturing of his captive 11-year-old son at their home in suburban Ottawa fully deserved his 15-year prison sentence, Ontario’s top court ruled on...
Feb 13, 2018

Liberals shake up Crown corporation after helicopter deal with Philippines
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has appointed a new chair of the Crown corporation that facilitated a controversial helicopter deal with the Philippines, and ordered the organization to become less re...
Feb 13, 2018