Category Archives: Canada

In the news today, Feb. 2
Six stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 2 --- PM TRUDEAU FACES MORE QUESTIONS AT TOWN HALL A disabled veteran, an Indigenous woman angry about racism and people worried about stalled oil pipelines hu...
Feb 02, 2018

Canada's famous groundhogs issue clashing weather predictions
Canada’s famous forecasting groundhogs have differing opinions on whether the country will be in for an early spring or continuing frigid temperatures. In Ontario, Wiarton Willie called for six ...
Feb 02, 2018

Procurement problems undermining Liberals' defence policy, analyst says
OTTAWA - Long-standing problems with Canada’s military procurement system are threatening to undermine the Trudeau government’s vaunted defence policy, warns a new report. The study, publi...
Feb 02, 2018

Critics of Kinder Morgan pipeline shout down Trudeau at B.C. town hall
NANAIMO, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke over jeers of “shame” Friday at a rowdy town hall meeting in Nanaimo, B.C., where he spent a large part of the two-hour gathering defend...
Feb 02, 2018
Helicopter crashes in Quebec field, catches fire
DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a helicopter crashed into a field in Drummondville on Thursday night. But police spokesman Louis-Philippe Bibeau said it was too early to comment on ...
Feb 01, 2018
Carol Off wins $40,000 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
VANCOUVER - Veteran journalist Carol Off has won this year’s British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The Toronto co-host of the CBC Radio current affairs show “As It Happ...
Feb 01, 2018

Trudeau gets questions about veterans, racism, pipelines at Edmonton town hall
EDMONTON - A disabled veteran, an Indigenous woman angry about racism and people worried about stalled oil pipelines had tough questions for the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a town hall meetin...
Feb 01, 2018
Ex-Mountie found guilty in five indecent assault cases by B.C. judge
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has found a former RCMP officer guilty of five counts of indecently assaulting five boys in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Alan Davidson was found not...
Feb 01, 2018

Officers cleared after arresting suspect in B.C. constable's death
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - British Columbia’s police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing after a man suspected of fatally shooting a constable was injured during his arrest. Const. John Davidson...
Feb 01, 2018

The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Feb. 1 --- REGINA MP ACCUSED OF HARASSMENT: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has ordered an investigation of Saskatchewan MP Erin Weir, without waiting for an actua...
Feb 01, 2018