Category Archives: Canada
With wider search for soldiers, Canada's military broadens horizons
OTTAWA - Canada’s military is going all out to erase its reputation for intolerance and misogyny, aiming to recast itself instead as welcoming to Canadians of all races, religions and sexual ori...
Jun 25, 2017
Via figuring out how to retrieve train from Churchill cut off by rail closure
CHURCHILL, Man. - Most of the talk since rail service to Churchill in northern Manitoba was indefinitely interrupted by washouts and other track damage last month has focused on how to get goods and t...
Jun 25, 2017
Banning of junk food sales in Canadian schools having a positive effect: study
HALIFAX - In Canada’s ongoing battle against childhood obesity, one simple weapon appears to be working. Over the past 12 years, six provinces have banned junk food from schools, and a new study...
Jun 25, 2017
Pain drove B.C. woman and 'thousands' to street drugs after medication cut off
VANCOUVER - Desperate for relief from unbearable pain following knee surgery, Lorna Bird says she was forced to buy drugs from the Downtown Eastside streets of Vancouver when her doctor stopped prescr...
Jun 25, 2017
"Happy Pride!": Trudeau attends Toronto parade absent of police floats
TORONTO - Thousands cheered on Toronto’s annual Pride parade Sunday and waved rainbow flags, though continued debate over the exclusion of the city’s police force swirled amid the colourfu...
Jun 25, 2017
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $9.4 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $9.4 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jack...
Jun 24, 2017
Trudeau celebrates St-Jean-Baptiste day in Montreal with his family
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the many people attending Fete nationale celebrations in Quebec on Saturday. Trudeau was mobbed by crowds as he visited a street party in his Montrea...
Jun 24, 2017
Scheer names rookie MP as Quebec lieutenant
VICTORIAVILLE, Que. - Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has named a rookie MP as his Quebec lieutenant. Scheer announced Saturday that Alain Rayes will be his political lieutenant in the province. Ray...
Jun 24, 2017
Offspring of Toronto's famous capybaras named after members of Rush
TORONTO - The offspring of Toronto’s wandering capybaras now have names - Alex, Geddy and Neil, for members of the band Rush. The High Park Zoo says the “capybabies” were born in Feb...
Jun 24, 2017
Fisheries department looking into right whale deaths in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
MONCTON, N.B. - The federal fisheries department is trying to figure out what caused the recent deaths of several endangered right whales in the waters off eastern Canada. A fisheries official says at...
Jun 24, 2017