Category Archives: Canada
Asylum seeker's death failure by Ottawa to get Trump to change policies: premier
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the federal government has failed to reduce the risk in illicit border crossings because it has not tried to persuade the U.S. president to soften his ...
May 31, 2017
Big month ahead for Canada-U.S. trade: multiple irritants come to a head in June
WASHINGTON - The multiple ways in which Donald Trump could threaten Canada-U.S. trade will be on full display this month, with a series of looming decisions and public events that hold the potential t...
May 31, 2017
B.C. overdose death rates hit new high, chief coroner says 'opioid naive' at risk
VANCOUVER - The death toll from drug overdoses is still rising in British Columbia but the chief coroner says the count would be higher if it weren’t for harm prevention measures. The coroner...
May 31, 2017
Closing arguments delayed in Ontario nurse manslaughter trial
BARRIE, Ont. - Closing arguments have been postponed in the manslaughter trial of an Ontario nurse who took a patient off life support without a doctor’s order. Legal issues prompted the last-mi...
May 31, 2017
Crew member had been awake 23 hours when train derailed: TSB report
CALGARY - An investigation into a derailment at a rail yard has found that the locomotive engineer had been awake for 23 hours when the accident occurred and employee fatigue remains a key safety issu...
May 31, 2017
Nine-year-old girl taken to hospital after drinking 'Unicorn Milk' vaping fluid
FREDERICTON - A nine-year-old New Brunswick girl was taken to hospital after consuming e-cigarette fluids from a brightly labelled “Unicorn Milk” bottle, her mother says. Lea L’Hoir ...
May 31, 2017
Verdict expected Thursday for engineer charged in Ontario mall roof collapse
A discredited former engineer who signed off on the health of a northern Ontario mall just weeks before it collapsed in June 2012 finds out Thursday if he bears any criminal responsibility for the two...
May 31, 2017
Players on hand as Canada Post commemorates Canada-USSR hockey showdown
WINNIPEG - The most famous goal scored in Canadian hockey history is now featured on a stamp. Canada Post unveiled a stamp Wednesday showing Paul Henderson - arms in the air, hugged by Yvan Cournoyer ...
May 31, 2017
Police in Ontario turning to Facebook in an effort to get leads in cold cases
Police are turning to social media in an effort to generate leads in unsolved homicides and missing person’s cases in central Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police and local police say four people ...
May 31, 2017
Transportation Safety Board to release final report into Leviathan II capsize
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board’s final report into the deadly capsizing of a whale-watching vessel off Vancouver Island is expected to be released next month. An email from the boar...
May 31, 2017