Category Archives: Canada
Sentencing for brothers in Calgary teen sex attack to resume in October
CALGARY - Sentencing is to resume in October for two brothers who randomly kidnapped a teenage girl and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Corey and Cody Manyshots pleaded guilty in October 2015 to ki...
Jul 20, 2017
Canadian energy company named in California climate-related lawsuit
A Canadian energy company is named in three large lawsuits that attempt to link damages from climate change to industry’s alleged attempts to hinder action to address it. In the latest of a grow...
Jul 20, 2017
Two teens from Burundi reported missing in the U.S. seen crossing into Canada
WASHINGTON - Two of six Burundi teenagers who went missing after an international robotics competition in the United States have been seen crossing the border into Canada, U.S. authorities said Thursd...
Jul 20, 2017
Rebuilding homes in Fort McMurray, Alta., going faster than expected, CMHC says
Rebuilding efforts in Fort McMurray, Alta., are running ahead of expectations, with reconstruction underway on one-third of the homes destroyed in last year’s wildfire, according to Canada Mortg...
Jul 20, 2017
Canada's high court to hear B.C. appeal in battle against big tobacco
OTTAWA - A 16-year battle in British Columbia will drag on a little longer as the province fights to recover billions of dollars in health-care costs linked to tobacco-related diseases. The Supreme Co...
Jul 20, 2017
Authorities find four stowaways in shipping container at Port of Montreal
MONTREAL - Four men found in a shipping container at the Port of Montreal were dehydrated and likely had been in the storage unit for many days, authorities said Thursday. Stephane Smith, a spokesman ...
Jul 20, 2017
Timing may be urgent for Trump's Canada envoy but Senate questions weren't
OTTAWA - It was an hour into her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday before Kelly Knight Craft, chosen by U.S. President Donald Trump to serve as the next ambassador to Canada at a pivotal time for b...
Jul 20, 2017
Liberal-Tory common front on NAFTA negotiations frayed by Khadr quarrel
OTTAWA - The bipartisan common front to defend Canadian interests in crucial NAFTA negotiations is being tested by a cross-border Conservative campaign savaging Justin Trudeau for making a generous fe...
Jul 20, 2017
Supreme Court won't hear appeal from former Nortel employee over benefits
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a former Nortel employee who claimed her charter rights were violated over the issue of disability payments. The employee had argued that the...
Jul 20, 2017
Quebec man credited with saving fellow seniors in L'Isle-Verte fire dies
L’ISLE-VERTE, Que. - A Quebec man who was lauded as a hero for helping to save the lives of three of his neighbours in a deadly 2014 seniors’ home fire has died at the age of 87. L’I...
Jul 20, 2017