Category Archives: Canada

CLEMENTSVALE, N.S. - RCMP say a seven-year-old girl has died of injuries she suffered when her leg was severed by a farm tractor that struck her as she played in a hay field in rural Nova Scotia. Cpl....

HALIFAX - Nova Scotians will have wide-spread access to the antidote for opioid overdoses as part of the provincial plan to address the drug problem that continues to grow across the country. Free nal...

KENSINGTON, P.E.I. - Chester Banks’ eyes lit up as he gazed back at the red soil of his beloved Island home and ticked a mission off his to-do list - crossing the Confederation Bridge for the fi...

HALIFAX - Another endangered North Atlantic right whale that was found lifeless in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is being towed to a New Brunswick island for a post-mortem examination, an animal rescue gro...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, July 20 --- DISTRICT AT HEART OF B.C. WILDFIRE FIGHT SAYS 41 MORE HOMES LOST Officials in B.C.’s Cariboo region - one of the regions hardest-hit by wildfi...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge inappropriately relied on “rape literature” to assess evidence in the case of a man found guilty last year of sexually assaulting a woman with whom he had a casu...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman who escaped the horrors of captivity at the hands of Iraqi militants was overjoyed to recently discover that her 12-year-old son has been rescued and is recovering from gun...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government isn’t about to pay for repairs to a washed-out rail line that links the community of Churchill on Hudson Bay to the rest of the province. Premier Brian Pallist...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to say what he knew - and when he knew it - about a dismissed, non-felony charge against his choice for Governor General. Julie Payette is calling th...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, July 19 --- NEW B.C. PREMIER EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER FIRES: British Columbia’s new government is extending the state of emergency for two mor...