Category Archives: Canada
Gender-based violence strategy to focus on better data, prevention and support
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is launching its long-awaited strategy on gender-based violence Monday, which will include a way to develop and share research on everything from street harassment to g...
Jun 18, 2017
Coming Liberal bills to reform Access to Information, national security measures
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government plans to cap the spring sitting of Parliament with long-awaited legislation on Access to Information and national security - bills unlikely to be debated by MPs in a se...
Jun 18, 2017
NDP leadership hopeful Charlie Angus promises help for indigenous kids
OTTAWA - NDP leadership candidate Charlie Angus is promising to find better ways to protect the interests of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children - including by dismantling the Indigenous Affairs D...
Jun 18, 2017
Boxer who was in critical condition after fight is dead, family says
EDMONTON - A boxer who had been in critical condition since a fight in Edmonton on Friday night has died, his sister says. Jackie Neil says in a statement on behalf of her family that Tim Hague died o...
Jun 18, 2017
All hands on deck for emergency personnel bracing for Canada 150 bash in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Be alert but not alarmed, police are urging Canadians who will congregate under the Peace Tower next month for Canada 150 celebrations - a massive public gathering for which intelligence agen...
Jun 18, 2017
Conservationists: Imperiled Atlantic salmon decline worsens
BANGOR, Maine - Fewer of North America’s Atlantic salmon are making it back to rivers to spawn, which bodes poorly for the future of the imperiled fish, an international conservation group says....
Jun 18, 2017
Canada's fed-prov finance ministers to start deep dive on marijuana taxation
OTTAWA - As the country’s finance ministers meet in Ottawa, the Trudeau government should expect to hear concerns about the added burden marijuana legalization could heap onto provincial shoulde...
Jun 18, 2017
Jury finds Halifax medical student guilty of first-degree murder
HALIFAX - The mother of a slain university student says she’ll keep searching for her son’s body, with or without the help of his killer. William Sandeson, a Halifax medical student, was f...
Jun 18, 2017
Dinosaur skull discovering in northeastern B.C. a first in the province
TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. - A piece of dinosaur skull unearthed in northeastern British Columbia earlier this month is the first of its kind discovered in the province, an expert says. The fossilized tyrann...
Jun 18, 2017
High River finishes rebuilding but abandoned neighbourhood reminder of flood
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - Even as High River finishes rebuilding, an abandoned neighbourhood full of million-dollar homes is a stark reminder of devastating flooding four years ago. Floods in parts of south...
Jun 18, 2017