Category Archives: Canada
Men between 19 and 59 new focus of B.C.'s deadly overdose epidemic
VANCOUVER - Too many men working in trades are overdosing on opioids, says a chief medical health officer in British Columbia who wants the industry to be involved in identifying interventions that co...
Aug 29, 2017
Liberals target students' skills gap with roll out of educational placement cash
OTTAWA - The federal government is making its biggest push yet into the country’s classrooms, hoping that millions in new spending will help students heading on to campuses to leave there better...
Aug 29, 2017
Two Quebec women among the many affected by Texas flooding
HOUSTON - Two Quebec women are among the thousands of people caught up in the flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey - one who can’t leave her home and one who has no idea when she can ret...
Aug 29, 2017
B.C. court tosses private clinic's bid to be exempt from paying daily court fees
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a private clinic that is suing the province over restrictions on private health insurance must continue to pay daily court fees. The plaintiffs ...
Aug 28, 2017
Guess Who founding member Chad Allan hospitalized after suffering stroke
VANCOUVER - The Guess Who founding member Chad Allan is recovering in a British Columbia hospital after suffering a stroke. Regenerator Records co-founder Larry Hennessey says the 74-year-old rock leg...
Aug 28, 2017
Provinces agree legal pot must be competitive with black market: Bill Blair
MONTREAL - There is an overwhelming national consensus that legal marijuana must be priced, taxed and made available competitively with the black market, the man tasked with leading the drug’s l...
Aug 28, 2017
Montreal police arrest man sought in Ontario and the United States
Montreal police say they have arrested a man who was sought in connection with alleged drug offences in Ontario and was also on a list of most wanted criminals in the United States. They say they appr...
Aug 28, 2017
PM has no plans to strip Macdonald's name from federal buildings, sites
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has no plans to delete the name of Sir John A. Macdonald - Canada’s first prime minister - from anything under federal responsi...
Aug 28, 2017
Bird on a bridge: Purloined parrot returned to roost at Saskatoon restaurant
SASKATOON - A statue of a parrot that normally adorns a Saskatoon restaurant flew the coop this weekend and landed atop a bridge under construction over the South Saskatchewan River. The bright-blue b...
Aug 28, 2017
Canada urges calm in response to Trump's NAFTA threats as talks continue
VANCOUVER - Canada’s international trade minister is urging calm in response to renewed threats from Donald Trump to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the U.S. president des...
Aug 28, 2017