Category Archives: Canada
Montreal's Grevin wax museum unveils sculpture of Justin Trudeau
MONTREAL - Instead of having to elbow through a crowd of fawning denizens to get a snapshot of Justin Trudeau, fans of the 23rd prime minister can now take their time for a selfie with their favourite...
Nov 21, 2017
Quebec finance minister announces personal income tax cuts
Quebec’s finance minister announced personal income tax cuts and increased funds for health and education on Tuesday and immediately denied the moves had anything to do with next year’s pr...
Nov 21, 2017
Word-flipping Victoria boy gets William Shatner's support for invented word
VANCOUVER - When six-year-old Levi Budd saw the word stop on a sign, he created the word pots. Before long, he was imagining words backwards and coming up with rats from star and pets from step. The i...
Nov 21, 2017
Police: Body of Quebec man missing in northern California found
ARCATA, Calif. - The body of a young man from Sherbrooke, Que., who had been missing for two weeks in northern California, has been found. According to police in Arcata, the body of 25-year-old Felix ...
Nov 20, 2017
Michael Redhill wins $100K Giller Prize for 'Bellevue Square'
TORONTO - For more than a decade now, Toronto author Michael Redhill has been publishing mystery novels under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe, but on Monday it was a piece of literary fiction bearing hi...
Nov 20, 2017
Calgary decides to stay in the game for possible 2026 Olympic Games bid
Calgary is continuing down the road of bidding for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, at least until the next off-ramp. City council voted Monday to spend up to $2 million more on work towards a p...
Nov 20, 2017
Quebec man sentenced to life in stabbing of grocery clerk appealing verdict
MONTREAL - Randy Tshilumba, the Quebec man convicted in October of brutally stabbing a young woman to death in a busy Montreal grocery store, is appealing the verdict. Defence lawyer Julie Giroux file...
Nov 20, 2017
Family of reservist killed during training says he'd just graduated university
CFB SHILO, Man. - The family of a reservist killed during a military training exercise in Manitoba says he’d just graduated from university last month. Cpl. Nolan Caribou’s family has rele...
Nov 20, 2017
'Wonder' star Tremblay, kids with facial differences meet for screening of film
TORONTO - Vancouver child actor Jacob Tremblay was in Toronto on Monday for a special screening of his new film “Wonder” about a child with facial differences, sharing it with his muses - ...
Nov 20, 2017
Consumers with shared wireless accounts advised to watch out for overage fees
TORONTO - Consumers are being advised to vigilantly check their wireless data consumption and roaming fees, as it looks increasingly unlikely that Canadian telecoms will implement notification methods...
Nov 20, 2017