Category Archives: Canada
If you ever do this again, we'll turn you in, pastor told killer nurse
A pastor prayed over Elizabeth Wettlaufer and told her not to kill again. A lawyer advised the registered nurse to take her murderous secrets to her grave. A Narcotics Anonymous sponsor dismissed her ...
Jun 03, 2017
Feds spent $707,000 spent on legal fees after child welfare decision
OTTAWA - The federal justice minister’s office says it spent $707,000 in legal fees following a landmark human rights tribunal decision on First Nations child welfare. Charlie Angus, an NDP MP a...
Jun 03, 2017
Health Canada approves three safe injection sites in Toronto
TORONTO - Health Canada has approved three supervised injection sites in Toronto, and local officials expect they will be operational be the end of the year. Necessary exemptions from the Controlled D...
Jun 03, 2017
Remains of First World War soldier from New Brunswick identified in France
OTTAWA - The remains of a New Brunswick man who died while fighting to take a French hillside during the First World War have been identified and will be given a proper burial. The Defence Department ...
Jun 03, 2017
Cab company not liable for driver's alleged sex assault on passenger
TORONTO - A taxi company cannot be held liable for the alleged sexual assault of a passenger by one of its drivers, Ontario’s top court ruled on Friday. In dismissing an appeal by the complainan...
Jun 03, 2017
Small ghost bike for a young Toronto boy: making a memorial for a cyclist
TORONTO - Geoffrey Bercarich has been making “ghost bikes” for fallen cyclists for more than a decade, but he’s never made one this small. At his Toronto home, he stands beside a chi...
Jun 03, 2017
New Halifax passenger ferries to be named for 1917 explosion hero, Mi'kmaq poet
Halifax’s two new ferries will be named after a poet laureate of the Mi’kmaq people and a railway dispatcher who in 1917 warned trains of an impending harbour explosion. The city announced...
Jun 03, 2017
More tests to see if brothers criminally responsible in Calgary teen sex attack
CALGARY - Two brothers who randomly kidnapped a teenage girl and repeatedly sexually assaulted her will undergo further psychological tests to determine if they are criminally responsible for their ac...
Jun 03, 2017
N.B. sex offender faces new charge after being placed in special care home
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A convicted sex offender is facing a new sexual assault charge after he was placed in a special care home for people with disabilities. Andrew Michael Douglas, 29, pleaded not guilt...
Jun 03, 2017
Tiny P.E.I. hamlet readies Stompin' Tom Centre for 'perfect' Canada Day opening
SKINNERS POND, P.E.I. - More than two decades after the residents of Skinners Pond, P.E.I., began trying to scrape together the money to build a centre dedicated to the music and life of their most fa...
Jun 03, 2017