Category Archives: Canada
Three U.S. children dead northeast of Calgary after SUV collides with truck
HANNA, Alta. - RCMP say three children who died when a semi-trailer truck collided with an SUV northeast of Calgary Wednesday were all from the United States. “The family is from Washington Stat...
Aug 17, 2017
Insults and put-downs: Outburst-prone former St. John's mayor wants job back
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Former St. John’s mayor Andy Wells says he’s milder now than that time he called his archrival “a stupid old woman.” It was the sort of biting put down...
Aug 17, 2017
No Canadians reported among dead or injured in Spain terror attack: Global Affairs
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says there are no reports of Canadians among those killed and injured in a terror attack in Barcelona. Someone drove a van into a crowd on the popular Las Ramblas touris...
Aug 17, 2017
Justice officials testing waters for sentencing reform promised by Liberals
OTTAWA - The Justice Department wants to know what Canadians think of changing some of the former Conservative government’s controversial tough-on-crime sentencing legacy - including mandatory m...
Aug 17, 2017
Western University music students to live in retirement home alongside seniors
When Western University graduate Heather Gingerich saw a news segment about an Ohio retirement home where music students lived alongside seniors, she was amazed at the electric atmosphere as the young...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian U Box It wins u-u-uge trademark battle over American U-Haul
OTTAWA - A family-owned Canadian garbage business is claiming victory over huge American moving company U-Haul International in a David-versus-Goliath battle involving whose U-themed brands deserve tr...
Aug 17, 2017
Teachers knew half of the kids on ill-fated canoe trip had failed swim test:TDSB
TORONTO - Two teachers knew that nearly half of the 32 students they accompanied on an ill-fated canoe trip earlier this summer had failed a required swim test but allowed them to go anyway, the Toron...
Aug 17, 2017
Immigration board to audit process for reviewing long-term detention
TORONTO - The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says it will carry out an independent audit of the process used to reassess the long-term detention of permanent residents and foreigners after tw...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian schools reluctant to embrace later bell times despite mounting research
TORONTO - A wave of international research suggesting delaying high school start times would have health and academic benefits for students has not yet crested in Canada. Several individual boards and...
Aug 17, 2017
Nova Scotia's Liberal government to table budget shelved by election Sept. 26
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government will next month re-introduce a budget shelved because of its May 30 election call. The budget will be tabled Sept. 26, five days after the legislature ...
Aug 17, 2017