Category Archives: Canada
Summer temperatures will be like 'whiplash', says meteorologist
TORONTO - Temperatures this summer are expected to feel like “whiplash,” and may swing between hot and cool over the course of the season, a top meteorologist says. The Weather Network rel...
May 24, 2017
PM in Brussels for NATO summit, where terrorism, cost of defence top agenda
BRUSSELS - The new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a massive, state-of-the-art facility that cost more than a billion euros to build - was designed to help the military allian...
May 24, 2017
Bank of Canada says uncertainty still clouds stronger growth, holds rate at 0.5%
OTTAWA - Uncertainties continue to obscure the economy’s stronger-than-expected start to the year, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it stuck with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per ce...
May 24, 2017
Security to be increased at Winnipeg's MTS Centre after Manchester bombing
WINNIPEG - Security is being enhanced at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre in the wake of the fatal bombing at an Ariana Grande show in Manchester, England. True North Sports and Entertainment will start by...
May 23, 2017
Grieving father says nine-year-old son slipped on rock and drowned
WINNIPEG - The father of a nine-year old Winnipeg boy who died in Ontario’s Rushing River Provincial Park this weekend says his son slipped on a rock and drowned. Trevor Thomas tells CTV Winnipe...
May 23, 2017
Canadian band Broken Social Scene plays Manchester show one day after attack
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene has played the first show of their European tour in Manchester. The performance comes a day after a suicide bombing at an Aria...
May 23, 2017
Parole Board of Canada says release revoked for Edmonton hostage taker
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The Parole Board of Canada says a man who took nine people hostage at gunpoint in Edmonton will remain in custody for breaching the conditions of his parole, including using methamp...
May 23, 2017
RCMP charge Alberta woman with threatening Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Police have charged a woman in southern Alberta with making online threats against the prime minister’s wife and the Canadian government. RCMP Cpl. Hal Turnbull said investig...
May 23, 2017
Thunder Bay, Ont., police chief charged with breach of trust, obstructing justice
ORILLIA, Ont. - The police chief of a northwestern Ontario city is facing charges following a five-month investigation into alleged criminal wrongdoing. Ontario Provincial Police say J.P. Levesque, 53...
May 23, 2017
'My hero:' Two fathers and their young sons die in Manitoba canoeing accident
THOMPSON, Man. - A young man says he’s devastated after his father and his dad’s best friend died in a canoeing accident in northern Manitoba along with two of their sons. James Cripps say...
May 23, 2017