Category Archives: Canada
Ousted Manitoba backbencher plans legal challenge for right to cross the floor
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician who was kicked out of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus says he’s planning a court challenge against a law that forbids him from joining another part...
Jul 04, 2017
Ontario museum sees dialogue opportunity after Canadian flag vandalized
KITCHENER, Ont. - Police are investigating it as an act of vandalism, but the director of an Ontario museum where a giant Canadian flag was stained with black paint over the Canada Day weekend says it...
Jul 04, 2017
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, July 4 --- OMAR KHADR TO GET $10M, APOLOGY, SOURCE SAYS: The Canadian government will pay former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr more than $10 million and...
Jul 04, 2017
Auto sales hit one-million mark by midway point of year for first time
TORONTO - Despite slumping passenger car sales, for the first time more than one million new vehicles have been sold in Canada by the midway mark of the year. DesRosiers Automotive Reports says overal...
Jul 04, 2017
Lost German shepherd is returned to B.C. owner with three nails in its head
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The X-rays leave no doubt about what happened, but Maureen Yeo says she still can’t fathom why anyone would shoot three construction nails into her dog’s head. Kuma, ...
Jul 04, 2017
Tories raised more than Liberals in 2016, but also spent more to do it
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party raised a million more dollars than the Liberals last year, but spent twice as much as the governing party in order to raise the cash. Annual financial reports p...
Jul 04, 2017
Saudi ambassador tells Ottawa to mind its own business in Badawi case
OTTAWA - Canada needs to start minding its own business when it comes to jailed blogger Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador said Tuesday. Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and later sentenced to ...
Jul 04, 2017
Saganash apologizes for plagiarism in Globe and Mail op-ed on Canada 150
OTTAWA - NDP indigenous affairs critic Romeo Saganash apologized Tuesday for having plagiarized portions of a recent newspaper column about Canada’s 150th anniversary. The column appeared in the...
Jul 04, 2017
Inside Ontario's fight to save declining barn swallows, one bird house at a time
TOWNSEND, Ont. - The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks ...
Jul 04, 2017
A chronological look at Canadian-born Omar Khadr's legal saga
TORONTO - A look at the long legal odyssey of Canadian-born Omar Khadr: July 27, 2002: Khadr, 15, allegedly throws grenade that kills United States Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during an American ...
Jul 04, 2017