Category Archives: Canada
Fury erupts at word that feds set to pay Omar Khadr $10.5 million, apologize
TORONTO - Word that the federal government has agreed to pay former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr more than $10 million and apologize to him to settle a long-running lawsuit sparked a furious and...
Jul 04, 2017
PM Trudeau and Irish Taoiseach tout benefits of CETA at Dublin meetings
DUBLIN - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaning on Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to help convince his European counterparts to give the go-ahead to the Canada-Europe free trade agreement. The wi...
Jul 04, 2017
Dead fin whale spotted floating off P.E.I., cause of death not known
CHARLOTTETOWN - A dead fin whale has been spotted floating in waters off P.E.I. Federal Fisheries officials say the carcass was seen during a recent aerial survey east of the Island. They say the caus...
Jul 04, 2017
RCMP hosts workshop that teaches other police how to train dogs to find fentanyl
INNISFAIL, Alta. - A workshop at the RCMP’s dog training centre in Alberta has attracted officers and animals from police forces across the continent eager to see the centre’s pioneering w...
Jul 04, 2017
Influential, misinformed Canadian media hurts China-Canada relations: envoy
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government should spend less time bowing down to Canadian journalists preoccupied with human rights and get on with negotiating an important free trade agreement with China, says ...
Jul 04, 2017
Five stories in the news for today, July 4
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, July 4 --- TRUDEAU IN EUROPE FOR G20 SUMMIT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Ireland to begin a week-long European visit which will culminate with a G20 meetin...
Jul 04, 2017
Deaths, injuries during Moncton shooting could have been avoided: Crown
MONCTON, N.B. - A former RCMP commissioner was “contrived” in his testimony at the national police force’s Labour Code trial stemming from the shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B., the ...
Jul 04, 2017
Canada's two new astronauts get rousing ovation at space agency near Montreal
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Joshua Kutryk and Jennifer Sidey have no shortage of tasks to accomplish as the new Canadian astronauts navigate their space careers, but one remains high on their to-do lists: inspi...
Jul 04, 2017
Cleanup continues at derailed freight train site, oil spill
PLAINFIELD, Ill. - The effort to clean up 40,000 gallons of crude oil continues south of Chicago where a freight train derailed last week. Canadian National Railways spokesman Patrick Waldron said Mon...
Jul 03, 2017
Indigenous families need reassurance as inquiry director resigns, group says
OTTAWA - An Aboriginal group is calling on organizers of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to be more transparent about how the process will move forward with t...
Jul 03, 2017