Category Archives: Canada
Conservative party politics getting in way of debate on environment: Chong
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong knew a promise to bring in a revenue-neutral carbon tax, if elected, would be a tough sell. But what he didn’t expect was that his own pa...
May 07, 2017
CSIS suspected Soviet spies of pinching King diary full of atomic secrets
OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency surmised that Soviet agents stole a key volume of William Lyon Mackenzie King’s fabled diary - a theory dissected in a new book about the intrigue surrounding ...
May 07, 2017
Franklin researchers hope to link DNA from sailors' bones with descendants
Researchers who have completed the first genetic analysis on the bones from the crew of the doomed Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic say they’re hoping to meet living descendants to m...
May 07, 2017
Canadian senior with home in Florida barred from U.S. over voter-registration form
TORONTO - A Canadian retiree says he’s been left with no choice other than to sell his house in Florida after being banned from the United States for what he believes was a long-buried bureaucra...
May 07, 2017
Tim Hortons CEO brushes aside skepticism of ambitious U.K. expansion plans
TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons is brushing off skepticism that the British will embrace its double-doubles and Timbits as it readies to open its first location in the United Ki...
May 07, 2017
Take a tin or leave toilet paper at community cupboard in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - A couple who’ve opened a community pantry outside their home in a poor Winnipeg neighbourhood say they could have started a community library, but the neighbours who knock on their do...
May 07, 2017
Debate over cultural appropriation a centuries-old battle for indigenous groups
TORONTO - The work of Toronto painter Amanda PL is infused with bright colours and bold outlines often associated with an indigenous art style. But for many of those familiar with the Woodland School ...
May 07, 2017
100 years later, Toronto genealogists help soldier's family find his burial site
TORONTO - After a search that spanned nearly a century, genealogists in Toronto have helped a Scottish family track down the unmarked grave of a relative who died after serving in the First World War ...
May 07, 2017
B.C. Green leader making bold predictions about multiple seats in Tuesday's vote
DUNCAN, B.C. - It’s a warm spring night and Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is standing in the middle of a paved road on a Vancouver Island First Nation talking about vote splitting in British ...
May 07, 2017
Clark still smiling about chances as B.C. election enters homeward stretch
PRINCETON, B.C. - Christy Clark appears unruffled by the rebuff of a shy one-year-old outside a cafe in southern British Columbia, who buries his head in his father’s shoulder. Unfazed, the B.C....
May 07, 2017