Category Archives: Canada
Social services minister enters race to replace Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall
REGINA - A renewal of Saskatchewan’s governing party envisioned by outgoing Premier Brad Wall showed early signs Tuesday when a rookie cabinet minister jumped into the leadership contest and a v...
Aug 15, 2017
Public warned about waves, rip currents as Hurricane Gert to brush Grand Banks
HALIFAX - Environment Canada is warning south-facing coastlines of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are going to get a little rough as Hurricane Gert brushes parts of the southern Grand Banks. It says the...
Aug 15, 2017
Labour groups talk work standards with Freeland ahead of NAFTA renegotiation
TORONTO - Labour groups made their final pitches Tuesday to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland about the importance of including higher labour standards in a revised NAFTA deal. In her last me...
Aug 15, 2017
Tension between The Rebel and conservatives erupts anew
OTTAWA - The uneasy relationship between Canadian conservatives and controversial news outlet The Rebel garnered renewed attention Tuesday after one of the site’s co-founders and two of its cont...
Aug 15, 2017
Canadian biathlon coach Richard Boruta dies in climbing accident in Alberta
CALGARY - Resourceful and demanding, with a big heart under a tough exterior, Richard Boruta touched the lives of many Canadian biathletes. The former national team coach died in a climbing accident n...
Aug 15, 2017
Second great white shark detected off Nova Scotia in apparent hunt for seals
HALIFAX - Another great white shark has been detected off Nova Scotia. A tag attached to Savannah, a 210-kilogram shark, pinged Monday morning off Barren Island near Sherbooke on the province’s ...
Aug 15, 2017
'Overdiagnosis epidemic' in thyroid cancer: University of Calgary researchers
CALGARY - A study by researchers at the University of Calgary suggests most people treated for thyroid cancer have tumours that would never pose any harm. Dawnelle Topstad and James Dickinson, with th...
Aug 15, 2017
Boy thwarts alleged abduction of five-year-old sister: Edmonton police
Edmonton police are praising the actions of a boy who they say thwarted the alleged abduction of his sister. Police say a man allegedly took the five-year-old girl who was riding her bike with her old...
Aug 15, 2017
"Deadpool 2" stuntwoman who died was a pioneering motorcycle racer
VANCOUVER - A stuntwoman killed while filming a scene for the movie “Deadpool 2” in Vancouver on Monday is being remembered as a pioneering motorcycle road racer who lived her life to the ...
Aug 15, 2017
Bell Aliant says double cable cut that led to cell outages was 'perfect storm'
HALIFAX - Bell Aliant says a widespread outage of its East Coast telecommunications network this month was the result of a “perfect storm” involving construction crews not checking where t...
Aug 15, 2017