Category Archives: Canada
Feds meeting fiscal goals, inherited $18B baseline deficit: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Tuesday that his Liberal government has been keeping its promise to be fiscally responsible and blamed the previous Conservative administration for bein...
Jun 27, 2017
Puppy stolen from Barrie, Ont., pet store recovered, 4 kittens still missing
BARRIE, Ont. - Police say they’ve recovered a puppy stolen from a central Ontario pet shop, but are still looking for four kittens taken during the same break-in. They say video surveillance cau...
Jun 27, 2017
Cannon stepping down as ambassador to France at the end of September
OTTAWA - Canada’s ambassador to France will be stepping down at the end of September. Lawrence Cannon took to his Twitter account Tuesday to thank former prime minister Stephen Harper for appoin...
Jun 27, 2017
Transgender boy's aunt speaks out as suicide expert visits Cape Breton
Justin Newell was a prankster who loved to play tricks on his family, crack jokes and tell silly stories. But the 13-year-old transgender boy took his own life June 3 in a heartbreaking suicide, one o...
Jun 27, 2017
Canada-based 'world's largest sleep study' seeks online volunteers
TORONTO - Brain scientists at a Canadian university are aiming to get a better handle on how sleep affects memory, problem solving, and other cognitive functions in what they are billing as the larges...
Jun 27, 2017
Fete nationale parade organizers apologize for float pushed by black teenagers
MONTREAL - Organizers of the Fete nationale parade are apologizing to people who were upset by the sight of black teenagers pushing a float carrying a white singer. Footage of the float from Saturday&...
Jun 27, 2017
Port of Halifax to welcome its biggest ship yet - the 349-metre Zim Antwerp
HALIFAX - If the Zim Antwerp, a massive container ship that will call on Halifax Thursday, were to stand on its stern, it would dwarf Atlantic Canada’s tallest building. At 349 metres long, the ...
Jun 27, 2017
Toronto cop killer granted permission to travel to visit daughter
TORONTO - The man found not criminally responsible for killing a Toronto police officer while driving a snowplow has been granted permission to travel up to 150 kilometres from his home in Ontario. Th...
Jun 27, 2017
Record-breaking sniper shot in Iraq should be 'celebrated,' Trudeau says
OTTAWA - The record-breaking kill shot by a Canadian sniper in Iraq should be “celebrated,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, even as he insisted Canada’s mission in the ba...
Jun 27, 2017
Trudeau says no security risks in Chinese takeover of Canadian satellite firm
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought Tuesday to assuage public fears and political complaints that the Liberal government’s decision to allow the Chinese takeover of a Canadian satellit...
Jun 27, 2017