Category Archives: Canada
Scheer mum on persistent questions about blame in Rick Dykstra affair
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer refused to say Tuesday what fate might await those involved in the party’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against Rick Dykstra during the...
Feb 06, 2018
Toronto cop denies sexually assaulting woman, court hears
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman nearly a decade ago told his trial Tuesday that he had consensual sex with his accuser. Const. Vincenzo Bonazza took the stand...
Feb 06, 2018
How Canada lost a potential 11th province - and got a university instead
HALIFAX - It reads like over-the-top historical fiction: Raids by American privateers, an invasion of the United States, tales of war booty and, incredibly, the loss of what could have been CanadaR...
Feb 06, 2018
N.S. town closely watching water levels after cars frozen in flash flood
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A Nova Scotia town is closely watching water levels after a brook twice overflowed its banks and swamped a commercial area, encasing 23 cars in slushy ice within minutes. Antigonish...
Feb 06, 2018
Montreal police say condition of boy struck by car over weekend improving
Montreal police say the condition of a five-year-old boy struck by a vehicle over the weekend is improving. The boy and his mother were struck by a car in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Montrea...
Feb 06, 2018
Jury acquits Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso of breach of trust
JOLIETTE, Que. - The jury in the trial of well-known Quebec construction magnate, Tony Accurso, who was accused of breach of trust, needed less than 24 hours of deliberations to come back with an acqu...
Feb 06, 2018
Donald Trump's trade boogeyman, the U.S. goods deficit, has just grown bigger
WASHINGTON - The biggest complaint of the Trump administration as it seeks to renegotiate trade arrangements has just gotten bigger: the U.S. trade deficit ballooned to its highest level in a decade i...
Feb 06, 2018
Trudeau to face skeptical Midwest students on first leg of U.S. trade trip
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau’s ongoing effort to breathe new life into Canada’s free trade ties with the United States will force him to make the case to a group of skeptical Chicago students. ...
Feb 06, 2018
Chagger demands aides keep her in the loop on allegations of sexual misconduct
OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet minister Bardish Chagger has made it clear to her top aides that if they ever hear of sexual misconduct allegations involving anyone in her office, they need to tell her about...
Feb 06, 2018
Agents: Mexican, Guatemalan tried to smuggle Romanians from Canada to US
MONTPELIER, Vt. - A man from Mexico and another from Guatemala tried to smuggle five Romanians into the United States from Canada along a remote stretch of the border in Vermont, American federal pros...
Feb 06, 2018