Category Archives: Canada
Former Quebec cabinet minister Jacques Daoust dead at 69
MONTREAL - Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust, who quit politics because of controversy surrounding his alleged role in a government agency’s sale of Rona Inc. shares to a U.S...
Aug 03, 2017
Quebec dealing with 150 asylum requests a day: immigration minister
HEMMINGFORD, Que. - The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier. What used to be an unmarked...
Aug 03, 2017
Trump leaked phone call: 'Don't worry about Canada,' says he's happy with trade
WASHINGTON - A leaked transcript of a Donald Trump phone call shows the president’s private comments about trade with Canada, and suggests he had an overwhelmingly positive attitude about the no...
Aug 03, 2017
Police seek international victims of 65-year-old man who posed online as boy
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are looking for victims of a 65-year-old Newfoundland man who posed as a teenage boy and exploited children online. The RCMP says the Deer Lake man was convicted of pos...
Aug 03, 2017
Toronto lays out opioid measures after emergency meeting on spike in deaths
Toronto is speeding up the opening of three supervised injection sites and asking local police to consider having some officers carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone as the city responds to a sp...
Aug 03, 2017
B.C. heat wave brings record-breaking temperatures, poor air quality
VANCOUVER - Air quality across southern British Columbia remains poor as smoke from wildfires and a heat wave affect the region. The province is reporting a high health risk rating for air quality in ...
Aug 03, 2017
Police seek truck that left one dead in apparent hit and run near Montreal
BROSSARD, Que. - Quebec provincial police were searching Thursday for a truck involved in a hit and run near Montreal that left one person dead in a car. Three other people in the car were injured in ...
Aug 03, 2017
Police probe laser beamed into aircraft that left pilot briefly dazed
HALIFAX - Police say a pilot was briefly dazed after a laser was pointed at his small plane as he flew over a Halifax suburb. They say a Diamond DA20 single-engine aircraft was flying above Hammonds P...
Aug 03, 2017
Loss of injured Andre De Grasse is a big blow to Canadian track fans, team
LONDON - World medals. One last shot at Usain Bolt. Perhaps a Canadian record. A world championships that had held so much promise for Andre De Grasse went up in smoke during a light 60-metre run on M...
Aug 03, 2017
New Brunswick government orders forestry restrictions due to fire risk
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick is bone dry, and the government is restricting forestry operations because of the fire risk. Energy and Resource Development Minister Rick Doucet says the forest fire hazar...
Aug 03, 2017