Category Archives: Canada
Orphan Well Association spending tops $2 million on care of Lexin assets
CALGARY - The cost of looking after hundreds of wells, pipelines and other oilfield gear left behind by bankrupt Lexin Resources Ltd. has exceeded $2 million and the bills continue to roll in, says Al...
Nov 10, 2017
'We were sitting ducks':100-year-old war veteran shares memories of Dieppe
MONTREAL - At age 100, Honorary Col. David Lloyd Hart still remembers every detail of the bloody and chaotic scene on the beach during the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe in 1942. Hart, a communicatio...
Nov 10, 2017
Washington's No. 1 economic priority is tax cuts, not NAFTA
WASHINGTON - A U.S. lawmaker dropped a remark this week that illustrated how NAFTA is not the No. 1 economic priority in Washington these days, obscured by another paramount prerogative. That issue is...
Nov 10, 2017
Canada trumpets progress on 'core elements' of new Trans-Pacific Partnership
DANANG, Vietnam - An agreement in principle on the Trans-Pacific Partnership appeared to inch closer to reality late Friday after a frenetic, confusing day of talks and media reports that bluntly blam...
Nov 09, 2017
Edmonton mayor says CFL Eskimos need to take steps on name change
WINNIPEG - Edmonton’s mayor says he wants the city’s Canadian Football League team to start taking steps towards a name change. Don Iveson says there needs to be serious conversations abou...
Nov 09, 2017
Alberta Health Services says student at Edmonton elementary school has diptheria
EDMONTON - A case of diphtheria has been confirmed in an Edmonton elementary student. Alberta Health Services says they will contact those who were in close contact with the student. It says no other ...
Nov 09, 2017
RCMP end search of British Columbia farm where human remains found
SALMON ARM , B.C. - The RCMP have completed their search of a British Columbia farm where the remains of an 18-year-old woman were found. Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said the rural property near Salmon Arm was ...
Nov 09, 2017
Montreal's Olympic Stadium to get new roof for $250 million
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says Montreal’s Olympic Stadium will have a new, $250 million roof by 2023. Tourism Minister Julie Boulet said on Thursday that the province doesn’t know y...
Nov 09, 2017
Results of study on stenting chest pain patients misinterpreted: researchers
TORONTO - It’s hard to believe that a single small study could cause such a hullabaloo, but that’s been the case with a research paper that looked at the effectiveness of using stents to o...
Nov 09, 2017
Canadian man arrested in U.S. over ex's death will be extradited: court docs
A man arrested in the U.S. in connection with the slaying of his ex-girlfriend in southern Ontario will be extradited back to Canada after a Texas court found the evidence against him was “exten...
Nov 09, 2017