Category Archives: Canada
Former Alberta politician one of the oldest Canadians to summit Mount Everest
RED DEER, Alta. - A former Alberta politician has become one of the oldest Canadians to summit Mount Everest. John Oldring, who served as a member of the legislature from 1986 to 1993 after spending m...
Jun 12, 2017
'Use your head but follow your heart': ill MP delivers plea to Parliament
OTTAWA - MPs in the Commons paused Monday to listen to an emotional speech by Ontario MP Arnold Chan, who spoke of his struggle with cancer while he appealed to his fellow parliamentarians for more ci...
Jun 12, 2017
Longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court leaving in December
OTTAWA - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is stepping down from the Supreme Court of Canada in December after 28 years on the court, including almost 18 years as chief. McLachlin, 74, is the first wom...
Jun 12, 2017
B.C. child killer too much of a threat for escorted outings, Crown says
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The crimes of a man who stabbed his daughter to death and smothered his two sons are so brutal he should be barred from escorted outings into the community, a Crown attorney sa...
Jun 12, 2017
School buses collide in Haliburton, Ont., sending 21 students to hospital
HALIBURTON COUNTY, Ont. - More than 20 students from a Toronto middle school were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Monday after two school buses collided on their way to a camp i...
Jun 12, 2017
Solo sailor, 73, describes sudden trouble at sea: 'The boat had inverted'
HALIFAX - Alone in the mid-Atlantic, 73-year-old Mervyn Wheatley awoke early Friday to heaving swells threatening to capsize his weathered sailboat, Tamarind. He stumbled from his bunk in the dark, gr...
Jun 12, 2017
Strike ends, Toronto Zoo to reopen Thursday after agreement ratified
TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo will reopen Thursday after being closed by a month-long strike. Unionized workers at Canada’s largest zoo ratified a new four-year collective agreement on Sunday. The T...
Jun 12, 2017
Health minister says overdose issue requires treatment without judgment
VANCOUVER - Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says more people are expected to die of illicit opioid overdoses in Canada this year compared with nearly 2,500 fatalities recorded in 2016. “It...
Jun 12, 2017
EIA shows oilsands saw major reserve writedown in 2016 following oil price drop
CALGARY - The U.S. Energy Information Administration has highlighted how last year’s oil price drop brought on a massive writedown of high-cost Canadian oilsands reserves. The EIA said in a brie...
Jun 12, 2017
Longboard rider faces legal battle after $598 ticket for using electric board
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver man has pulled the plug on his electric skateboard after receiving a $598 ticket the first time he took it out on the street. Daniel Dahlberg said he was riding the longboard, ...
Jun 12, 2017