Category Archives: Canada
E-cigarette use by teens linked to later tobacco smoking: study
TORONTO - Teenagers who use electronic cigarettes are at risk of graduating to tobacco smoking, a large Canadian study suggests. The study of more than 44,000 Grade 9 to 12 students in Ontario and Alb...
Oct 29, 2017
Jason Kenney to seek seat in Calgary byelection after winning United Conservative leadership
CALGARY - Alberta’s newly annointed conservative leader is wasting little time in pursuing his desire to go head-to-head with NDP Premier Rachel Notley. Less than 24 hours after winning 61 per c...
Oct 29, 2017
Winterized trailers soon to provide shelter to asylum-seekers at Quebec border
MONTREAL - Winterized trailers will soon be replacing the tents providing temporary shelter to asylum-seekers who have crossed the Quebec-U.S. border, even as the number of irregular border crossings ...
Oct 29, 2017
Police in Winnipeg seize opioid blotters with picture of witch riding broom
Winnipeg police have issued a special Halloween safety advisory after making a spooky drug seizure. Police say that while officers were executing a search warrant at a home as part of a drug investiga...
Oct 29, 2017
Northern Quebec police warn of cannabis-laced candies ahead of Halloween
MONTREAL - It may be nearly Halloween, but authorities in northern Quebec are trying to keep a certain type of gummy bear out of children’s hands. Authorities in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Terr...
Oct 29, 2017
Inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women heads to Nova Scotia
MEMBERTOU, N.S. - A Mi’kmaq activist said she felt the presence of missing and murdered Indigenous women as families gathered in Nova Scotia for this week’s community hearings, and their s...
Oct 29, 2017
American Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Newfoundland
STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Newfoundland on Saturday due to a cracked windshield. The Boeing 7-7-7 airliner landed safely at the Stephenville airport ...
Oct 29, 2017
Sale of shares not an admission of conflict of interest, says Morneau
OTTAWA - Donating money he made from shares in his family business since taking office is not an admission that he was in a conflict by controlling those shares, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau ...
Oct 29, 2017
No salmon return to Canada river, bringing New England fears
A conservation group’s discovery that no wild Atlantic salmon have returned to a key river in New Brunswick is prompting concern for the fish’s population health in the U.S. and eastern Ca...
Oct 29, 2017
Get ready for anything, trade lawyer tells business community on NAFTA
OTTAWA - Growing uncertainty over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement means companies need to brace themselves, including for the possibility that President Donald Trump walks away f...
Oct 29, 2017