Category Archives: Canada
Historic cabin where Dionne quintuplets were born to be moved Sunday
A yearlong grassroots campaign to keep the birth home of the Dionne quintuplets in a northeastern Ontario city will come to fruition this weekend as the house-turned-museum is uprooted and transported...
Nov 16, 2017
Tories express shock, sadness at sudden death of first Filipino-Canadian senator
OTTAWA - Tobias Enverga Jr., the first Filipino-Canadian ever appointed to the Senate, has died while on a parliamentary visit to Colombia. Conservatives on Parliament Hill flooded social media with c...
Nov 16, 2017
Infrastructure bank could help build Indigenous projects, chairwoman says
OTTAWA - The chairwoman of a new federal agency that will help finance the construction of new highways, transit systems and electricity grids says it could also help fund multiple, smaller projects t...
Nov 16, 2017
Retired Saskatchewan nun offers prayer for Riders in quest for Grey Cup
SASKATOON - A retired nun in Saskatoon suspects God could be wearing a Saskatchewan Roughriders jersey and a watermelon helmet when the Riders meet the Toronto Argonauts in this weekend’s Canadi...
Nov 16, 2017
Nova Scotia sailboat captain pleads guilty to two cocaine-related charges
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia sailboat captain has pleaded guilty to two drug charges after 250 kilograms of cocaine were found hidden in his vessel after it pulled into a small marina two months ago. The C...
Nov 16, 2017
Ontario Liberal government moves to introduce legislation to end college strike
TORONTO - Ontario’s Liberal government is moving to introduce back-to-work legislation that would end a nearly five-week strike by college faculty, though opposition from the NDP means it may no...
Nov 16, 2017
N.S. at risk of becoming an island if action isn't taken, municipal leaders warn
AMHERST, N.S. - Nova Scotia is at risk of becoming an island within decades if action is not taken to fix the 275-year-old dikes that prevent flooding of the isthmus connecting the province to the res...
Nov 16, 2017
Governments, consumers dangerously exposed as data becomes new currency
CALGARY - Would you sign on to a Wi-Fi service that promised to maliciously steal your data? That’s what dozens of people at an Ottawa communications conference unwittingly agreed to this week w...
Nov 16, 2017
Gas plants accused decline to call evidence; closing arguments Nov. 22.
TORONTO - Two former senior political aides charged with illegally destroying documents related to the Ontario government’s decision to cancel two gas plants will call no witnesses in their defe...
Nov 16, 2017
Quebec celebrity chef in hot water over report he lied about his background
MONTREAL - A Quebec celebrity chef is defending his reputation after a report the carefully crafted narrative about his life and professional experience isn’t entirely true. Giovanni Apollo rele...
Nov 16, 2017