Category Archives: Canada
Conditional discharge, community service for Blue Jays can tosser Ken Pagan
TORONTO - A man who threw a beer can onto the field during a dramatic Blue Jays playoff game last fall was given a conditional discharge Wednesday, after his lawyer argued the public humiliation he su...
Jun 28, 2017
Carcass of right whale towed to P.E.I. to determine cause of death
NORWAY, P.E.I. - The Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries and Oceans Canada have beached a dead right whale on a Prince Edward Island shore in a bid to learn what killed at least six of the endangered m...
Jun 28, 2017
Boeing wins delay in duty ruling on petition against Bombardier CSeries
MONTREAL - Bombardier will have to wait an extra two months to find out if its CSeries commercial jets will be hit by punishing U.S. duties. The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday granted Boeing...
Jun 28, 2017
Massive U.S. aircraft carrier visits Halifax: 'This is a floating city'
HALIFAX - The FA-18 Super Hornet revs its engines to maximum thrust, and the jet fighter’s nose wheel is locked into a steam-powered catapult on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck. The thu...
Jun 28, 2017
Fibre-optic device can detect stray cancer cells, improve tumour removal: study
TORONTO - A fibre-optic probe can detect errant cancer cells within healthy tissue during brain tumour surgery with close to 100 per cent accuracy and sensitivity, reducing the risk of recurrence and ...
Jun 28, 2017
Second inmate in two years dies of prescription drug overdose at N.S. jail
HALIFAX - Another inmate has died from a drug overdose in Nova Scotia’s largest jail, making it the second case in two years of a prisoner dying after taking prescription drugs obtained in the f...
Jun 28, 2017
Lionel Desmond not turned away by hospital, family says after briefing on deaths
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A former Canadian soldier was not turned away from a Nova Scotia hospital in the days before he killed three members of his family and himself, relatives said Wednesday after meetin...
Jun 28, 2017
Montreal man accused in Flint airport attack denied bail
FLINT, Mich. - A Canadian man accused of stabbing an airport police officer in Flint, Mich., will remain in jail while his case proceeds. Joan Morgan, a lawyer for Amor Ftouhi (ah-MOOR’ fuh-TOO&...
Jun 28, 2017
'Internet has no borders,' Supreme Court of Canada says in ruling against Google
OTTAWA - A potentially groundbreaking Supreme Court ruling recognizes that Canadian courts have jurisdiction to make sweeping orders to block access to Internet content beyond Canada’s borders. ...
Jun 28, 2017
Feds fund mentorship network to support indigenous health researchers
OTTAWA - The federal government intends to spend $8 million over five years to establish a mentorship network for First Nations, Metis and Inuit health researchers. The funding follows a recommendatio...
Jun 28, 2017