Category Archives: Canada
'Welcome home,' B.C. mayor says to thousands of returning wildfire evacuees
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Thousands of people who rushed out of their homes as a wildfire neared Williams Lake are being allowed to return to the Interior British Columbia city, but with a warning that th...
Jul 27, 2017
Federal minister says GM salmon project for P.E.I. requires assessment
CHARLOTTETOWN - The federal government says a proposal to produce the world’s first genetically modified salmon for human consumption in P.E.I. will face environmental assessment. In a letter to...
Jul 27, 2017
Mounties say armed standoff in Nunavut ends peacefully, suspect in custody
POND INLET, Canada - An armed standoff with a man barricaded inside a house in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, has ended peacefully. RCMP say that after several hours of negotiations, a 27-year-old man was taken...
Jul 26, 2017
SHARE report finds there is poor corporate reporting on Indigenous issues
A group that advises activist shareholders hopes a new report will do for Indigenous issues what has already been done for environmental causes - put them on the boardroom table. “The purpose is...
Jul 26, 2017
Families say missing, murdered women inquiry a failure; call for 'hard reset.'
REGINA - The families of missing and murdered Indigenous women say a national inquiry has already failed and are calling for “a hard reset” on the process. Many made emotional pleas Wednes...
Jul 26, 2017
Saskatoon pastor offers spiritual advice, fruit punch at roadside stand
SASKATOON - A Saskatoon pastor is taking a page out of Charles Schultz's classic "Peanuts" comic strip by offering spiritual advice and a glass of fruit punch at a roadside stand in his neighbourhood....
Jul 26, 2017
Police say no suspects in 'random' homicide of 13-year-old girl at Burnaby park
BURNABY, B.C. - The homicide of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a suburban Vancouver park involved a random attack, police say. Cpl. Meghan Foster of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said W...
Jul 26, 2017
Canada, U.S. heading in opposite directions as Trump says 'No' to trans troops
OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces says it is pressing ahead with improvements to its transgender policy, even as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to bar transgender people from military service south of t...
Jul 26, 2017
N.S. art gallery dealt major blow as board rejects bulk of Leibovitz collection
HALIFAX - It was an enormous coup for a small art gallery, scoring 2,070 photos by famed American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. But the donation of the multi-million-dollar collection to the ...
Jul 26, 2017
What was said about top court rulings on digenous consultations
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that the National Energy Board can fulfil the Crown’s duty to consult Indigenous communities about development projects but it must be done p...
Jul 26, 2017