Category Archives: Canada
Privacy laws apply to the dead: police chiefs could withhold ID of homicide victims
CALGARY - Alberta’s police chiefs have agreed in principal to new rules that could mean the names of homicide victims are withheld from the public. “There is just a lawful expectation of p...
Aug 02, 2017
B.C. asks utilities commission to review $8.8-billion Site C dam megaproject
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s New Democrat government has requested an independent review of the $8.8-billion Site C dam, threatening thousands of construction jobs on what was a signature mega...
Aug 02, 2017
Flight delays: Canadian Transportation Agency wants Air Transat explanation
GATINEAU, Que. - The Canadian Transportation Agency has ordered Air Transat to explain the circumstances surrounding a delay of two of its flights, including one in which a plane spent six hours on th...
Aug 02, 2017
Manitoba judge asks why no one noticed lengthy abuse before child's death
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge had harsh words Wednesday as he asked why no one stepped in to prevent the lengthy neglect and abuse that left a 21-month-old girl malnourished, suffering from untreated in...
Aug 02, 2017
Bill of rights would prevent woes like those experienced by Air Transat travellers
TORONTO - A bill of rights for Canadian travellers would prevent problems like those experienced by Air Transat passengers forced to withstand uncomfortably warm conditions on a flight stuck on an Ott...
Aug 02, 2017
The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 2 --- CENSUS 2016: SINGLE, SAME-SEX AND CHILDLESS: Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are bloss...
Aug 02, 2017
B.C. court orders insurance firm to pay for man's emergency surgery in U.S.
VICTORIA - An insurance company that refused to pay for a British Columbia man’s emergency heart surgery has been ordered by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Victoria to cover the US$180,000 bill. ...
Aug 02, 2017
Metro Vancouver residential property benchmark price cracks $1 million
VANCOUVER - The typical price of a home in Metro Vancouver surpassed $1 million for the first time last July, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said on the one-year anniversary of British Col...
Aug 02, 2017
More fast-charging stations coming for electric vehicles in the Maritimes
HALIFAX - Driving an electric car along Canada’s rugged East Coast is about to get a lot easier. Electric utilities in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are moving ahead with plans to install m...
Aug 02, 2017
Rick George, former Suncor Energy CEO and pioneer of oilsands industry, dies at 67
CALGARY - Rick George, former CEO of Suncor Energy and a pioneer of Canada’s oilsands industry, has died at the age of 67 after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. George, who died Tuesday, is...
Aug 02, 2017