Category Archives: Canada
NDP leadership hopeful Charlie Angus promises help for indigenous kids
OTTAWA - NDP leadership candidate Charlie Angus is promising to find better ways to protect the interests of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children - including by dismantling the Indigenous Affairs D...
Jun 18, 2017
All hands on deck for emergency personnel bracing for Canada 150 bash in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Be alert but not alarmed, police are urging Canadians who will congregate under the Peace Tower next month for Canada 150 celebrations - a massive public gathering for which intelligence agen...
Jun 18, 2017
Conservationists: Imperiled Atlantic salmon decline worsens
BANGOR, Maine - Fewer of North America’s Atlantic salmon are making it back to rivers to spawn, which bodes poorly for the future of the imperiled fish, an international conservation group says....
Jun 18, 2017
Canada's fed-prov finance ministers to start deep dive on marijuana taxation
OTTAWA - As the country’s finance ministers meet in Ottawa, the Trudeau government should expect to hear concerns about the added burden marijuana legalization could heap onto provincial shoulde...
Jun 18, 2017
Jury finds Halifax medical student guilty of first-degree murder
HALIFAX - The mother of a slain university student says she’ll keep searching for her son’s body, with or without the help of his killer. William Sandeson, a Halifax medical student, was f...
Jun 18, 2017
Dinosaur skull discovered in northeastern B.C. a first in the province
TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. - A piece of dinosaur skull unearthed in northeastern British Columbia earlier this month is the first of its kind discovered in the province, an expert says. The fossilized tyrann...
Jun 18, 2017
High River finishes rebuilding but abandoned neighbourhood reminder of flood
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - Even as High River finishes rebuilding, an abandoned neighbourhood full of million-dollar homes is a stark reminder of devastating flooding four years ago. Floods in parts of south...
Jun 18, 2017
New Nova Scotia gold rush: Miners seek riches in tiny flecks of precious metal
MOOSE RIVER GOLD MINES, NOVA SCOTIA, Canada - Amid the dull claystone of a tube-shaped sample of rock, the gleaming, pulse-quickening swirl of gold is unmistakable. “It’s quite a special s...
Jun 18, 2017
High school? Colorado outfit offers niche program for marijuana sommeliers
VANCOUVER - A marijuana aficionado in Colorado has launched a program he hopes will make the title of cannabis interpener as familiar as wine sommelier, cheesemonger and chocolatier. Max Montrose, the...
Jun 18, 2017
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket purchased in Ontario. The jac...
Jun 18, 2017