Category Archives: Canada
15-year-old girl shot in stomach outside metro station north of Montreal
MONTREAL - A 15-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. Police say the girl was with friends outside a metro station in Laval, n...
May 30, 2017
Tragically Hip strikes partnership with medical marijuana company
TORONTO - A soon-to-be publicly traded medicinal marijuana producer has partnered with the Tragically Hip in anticipation of the drug’s legalization and a burgeoning recreational market. Newstri...
May 30, 2017
Trudeau stands by Kinder Morgan despite changing politics in B.C.
ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing by the Kinder Morgan pipeline project, even as the New Democrats and Greens in B.C. are teaming up to fight it. “The decision we took on the Tran...
May 30, 2017
Nova Scotia Liberals win their second straight majority government
HALIFAX - After a long night of hard-fought election battles, Nova Scotia’s Liberal government won a second straight majority victory early Wednesday, marking the first time the province has see...
May 30, 2017
Quebec government defends against claims back-to-work law gives it too much power
QUEBEC - The Quebec Liberals defended their back-to-work bill Tuesday from accusations the law gives to much power to the government regarding negotiations between unions and private-sector constructi...
May 30, 2017
'Off the map,' 'dashboard warning': How intelligence vets see Kushner/Russia
WASHINGTON - Former members of America’s intelligence community are plumbing the depths of their reservoir of metaphors to express distress over news that the president’s son-in-law tried ...
May 30, 2017
Fighting famine in Africa and Middle East starves terrorism: Bibeau
OTTAWA - Famine-ravaged countries in Africa and the Middle East will breed and spread terrorism if the world can’t help feed their people and give them hope, says Canada’s international de...
May 30, 2017
Family urges MMIW commissioners not to sweep results of inquiry under rug
WHITEHORSE - Frances Neumann searched tirelessly for her missing sister-in-law in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, only to learn from a newspaper article she had been dead for years. Neumann, the ...
May 30, 2017
Closing arguments expected this week in Ontario nurse's manslaughter trial
BARRIE, Ont. - Closing arguments are expected to begin Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of an Ontario nurse who took a woman off life support without a doctor’s order, with jurors set to begi...
May 30, 2017
Six stories in the news today, May 30
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, May 30 --- TRUDEAU CONTINUES OFFICIAL VISIT TO ITALY TODAY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will continue his official visit to Italy today, where he will meet Prime ...
May 30, 2017