Category Archives: Canada
Medical student panicked and incoherent after shooting, Halifax trial told
HALIFAX - Medical student William Sandeson was panicked and incoherent as he tried to clean up around a man’s blood-covered body in his apartment, a Halifax jury heard Thursday. Justin Blades sa...
May 11, 2017
Report says most domestic violence victims in Saskatchewan are women, children
REGINA - A panel examining domestic violence says most domestic homicide victims in Saskatchewan have been women and a third were children. The panel’s interim report released Thursday by the ju...
May 11, 2017
Final remains of murdered aboriginal woman returned to family after eight years
HALIFAX - The final remains of a murdered Mi’kmaq woman have been returned to her family, eight years after Tanya Brooks’ body was found outside a Halifax school. Brooks’ sister Vane...
May 11, 2017
Five things to know about Aeroplan points and Air Canada's new loyalty program
TORONTO - Air Canada (TSX:AC) is saying au revoir to Aeroplan as it unveils plans to start an in-house loyalty rewards program in 2020. Here’s what that means for the five million Aeroplan membe...
May 11, 2017
Full business investment rebound unlikely in advanced economies: Bank of Canada
OTTAWA - A new Bank of Canada analysis says it has doubts business investment in advanced economies will accelerate back to its level before the 2007-09 global financial crisis. The discussion paper s...
May 11, 2017
DNA evidence in retrial of accused in Winnipeg teen's death flawed: defence
WINNIPEG - The lawyer for a man accused of killing a teenaged girl in Winnipeg three decades ago told court Thursday the Crown’s evidence is deeply, fatally flawed. In his closing arguments, Sau...
May 11, 2017
Wilson-Raybould said impaired driving bill would not violate charter rights
Demanding a breath sample from a motorist is no different than asking for their licence and registration, Canada’s justice minister argued Thursday as the federal Liberal government defended its...
May 11, 2017
N.B. wryly roasts Ottawa for erroneously placing famous rock formation in N.S.
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick had to give Ottawa a geography lesson - Twitter-style - after a federal agency mistakenly put the famous Hopewell Rocks in Nova Scotia. The “flower pot” rocks a...
May 11, 2017
Federal cost of natural disaster help has been steadily rising since 1970
GATINEAU, Que. - The increasing number and intensity of natural disasters in Canada pushed Ottawa’s bills for federal help to $360 million a year since 2011 - three times what the annual cost wa...
May 11, 2017
Air Canada to launch its own loyalty rewards program in 2020 to replace Aeroplan
TORONTO - Air Canada said Thursday it will launch its own loyalty rewards plan in 2020 and not renew its contract with the company running Aeroplan, sending Aimia’s stock plummeting by more than...
May 11, 2017