Category Archives: Canada
Payday lenders starting to feel pinch from new Alberta regulations
CALGARY - The garish yellow storefronts promising quick and easy cash are starting to dwindle in Alberta as the payday loan industry says provincial regulations put in place last year have made its si...
May 14, 2017
Nova Scotia election: Why health care has become the number-one issue
HALIFAX - For Janet Glazebrook, having to beg a doctor to test her sister for hip fractures after waiting hours in a crowded emergency room helped determine her vote in Nova Scotia’s May 30 elec...
May 14, 2017
Uranium mine cleanup moves ahead, but Saskatchewan is left with ballooning cost
URANIUM CITY, Sask. - The total price tag was estimated at under $25 million when the federal government agreed to pay for half the cleanup of a radioactive Cold-War-era uranium mine in northern Saska...
May 14, 2017
Victim wants adult sentence for school shooter who killed 4, wounded 7
REGINA - The last time Charlene Klyne was in the same room as the teenager convicted in a deadly school shooting in Saskatchewan, he opened fire and shot her in the face. Klyne, who lost her sight aft...
May 14, 2017
Blizzard of embers sparked fires that burned Fort McMurray homes last year
EDMONTON - A wildfire expert says a blizzard of blazing embers that were blown by the wind over fireguards and a river sparked the flames that destroyed homes in Fort McMurray last spring and then spr...
May 14, 2017
CRTC says wireless companies must be able to send emergency alerts
Canada’s telecom regulator says all wireless service providers must be able to send emergency alerts to customers’ cellphones, and has set a deadline for it to happen. The Canadian Radio-t...
May 14, 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...
May 14, 2017
Families unsure whether to take part in missing indigenous women inquiry
WINNIPEG - Some families of missing and murdered indigenous women remain uncertain if they should take part in a national inquiry aimed at examining the violence in their communities, according to a g...
May 13, 2017
Elections BC accepts recounts for two ridings, rejects four other requests
VICTORIA - Elections BC has rejected four of the six requests for recounts in ridings where the outcome in the provincial election was determined by less than 600 votes. Two requests were submitted fo...
May 13, 2017
'We were lucky': massive cyberextortion attack could have affected Canada
TORONTO - Canada is not immune to online extortion, despite apparently sidestepping a massive attack that temporarily crippled networks around the world, a cybersecurity expert said. Atty Mashatan, a ...
May 13, 2017