Category Archives: Canada
Watchdog investigating sex assault allegations involving Waterloo region police
WATERLOO, Ont. - Ontario’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into four allegations of sexual assault involving a police force in the province. Special Investigations Unit spo...
Feb 02, 2018
Jurors in Lac-Megantic trial cost taxpayers more than $300,000: documents
MONTREAL - Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $300,000 in expenses attributed to jurors in the criminal trial for the Lac-Megantic train explosion that killed 47 people. That number represents on...
Feb 02, 2018

Rottweiler and chicken appear to be best of friends in YouTube videos
CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - As playmates, they make an unlikely pair: Charlee is a large, black Rottweiler and Penny is a barnyard chicken. But the YouTube videos recorded inside Steve Ivany’s ...
Feb 02, 2018
Challenging Yukon Quest sled dog race prepares for 35th annual event
WHITEHORSE - Twenty-six mushers and their dogs have one more day of rest before the teams hit the trail for the 35th annual Yukon Quest sled dog race, renowned as one of the toughest such events on th...
Feb 02, 2018
Canada to send largest-ever Winter Games delegation to Pyeongchang
TORONTO - Canada will send 225 athletes and 87 coaches to the Pyeongchang Olympics, its largest-ever delegation for a Winter Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee says the team of athletes includes 12...
Feb 02, 2018

Suspended vice-admiral's case will 'inevitably' lead to 'court processes': PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the police investigation into Vice-Admiral Mark Norman will “inevitably” lead to “court processes,” even as calls mount for the susp...
Feb 02, 2018

MPs support relocating RCMP call centre to Nova Scotia Indigenous community
OTTAWA - Canada’s minister of Indigenous services is throwing her weight behind a bid to relocate an emergency call centre to a First Nation community in Nova Scotia. Moving the RCMP operations ...
Feb 02, 2018

Supreme Court sides with B.C. First Nation in ancestral land dispute
OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has moved a British Columbia First Nation a big step closer to receiving financial compensation for the loss of its traditional lands in the 19th century. I...
Feb 02, 2018
Island whistleblowers consider legal options after report on privacy violation
Two whistleblowers whose private information was leaked in brown envelopes from Prince Edward Island’s government to the Liberal Party say they won’t fade away without being compensated fo...
Feb 02, 2018

Ex-NDP leader Tom Mulcair to teach at Universite de Montreal post-politics
MONTREAL - Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Universite de Montreal later this year. The university announced Friday the longtime federal and Quebec pol...
Feb 02, 2018