Category Archives: Canada
Man who trademarked name of his own county hands it over to council
An Ontario man who managed to trademark the name of the county he lives in says he has decided to relinquish the trademark to the local government. Michael Stinson caused a stir among Haliburton Count...
Aug 04, 2017
November 2018 trial date set for man accused in deaths of woman and her daughter
CALGARY - A three-week jury trial for a man accused of killing a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter is scheduled to begin in November 2018. Edward Downey is pleading not guilty to two counts...
Aug 04, 2017
Charges officially dropped against Arthur Porter, two years after his death
MONTREAL - Criminal charges against the doctor accused of committing what Quebec authorities described as the biggest corruption fraud in Canada’s history have officially been abandoned, two yea...
Aug 04, 2017
Tubal ligations of Indigenous women in Saskatoon 'troubling': Bennett
OTTAWA - Reports that women in and around Saskatoon were being coerced into tubal ligation procedures are evidence of racism in a health-care system that remains biased against Aboriginal women, Canad...
Aug 04, 2017
Trial date set for man accused in shooting of Stampeder Mylan Hicks
CALGARY - A December 2018 trial date has been set for a man charged in the shooting death of a Canadian Football League player last year. Nelson Tony Lugela has pleaded not guilty to a charge of secon...
Aug 04, 2017
Heat wave ends, smoky conditions persist in B.C. ahead of long weekend
VANCOUVER - A heat wave scorching British Columbia’s south coast has ended but poor air quality caused by smoke from raging wildfires continues to plague the southern half of the province. Envir...
Aug 04, 2017
Muslims to have their own cemetery in Quebec City
QUEBEC - Muslims in Quebec City are going to have their own cemetery after all. The cemetery will be located on a parcel of land of about 6,000 square metres the city is selling for about $270,000 plu...
Aug 04, 2017
Construction to begin next week on Toronto's first supervised injection site
TORONTO - Construction on one of three safe injection sites in Toronto is set to begin next week, the city announced Friday, moving forward on a commitment to speed up the opening of the facilities. T...
Aug 04, 2017
Rethink caribou protection plan, says forest industry
OTTAWA - Canada’s forestry industry says a proposed federal plan to protect caribou is a risky experiment that will do little to help the animals, but will hurt companies already struggling with...
Aug 04, 2017
Many Atlantic Canadians lose cellphone, internet service in widespread outage
HALIFAX - Much of Atlantic Canada lost cellphone and other network services for more than four hours Friday, inconveniencing citizens and commerce alike, after what Bell called “accidental damag...
Aug 04, 2017