Category Archives: Canada
Lawyer for student charged in murder challenges friend's memory of bloody man
HALIFAX - The lawyer for a university medical student accused of murder tried to cast doubt on the memory of a neighbour who claimed he saw a bloody man in his apartment. Pookiel McCabe was testifying...
May 10, 2017
Mounties recall confused response to Moncton massacre: 'We're heavily out-armed'
MONCTON, N.B. - A hushed Moncton courtroom heard the alarmed voice Wednesday of a senior Mountie calling for help as “heavily out-armed” officers tried to track a gunman out to assassinate...
May 10, 2017
Nova Scotia Tories promise to spend $34 million to revive film tax credit
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives are promising to bring back a refundable film tax credit if elected May 30, taking aim at the creative-industry workers the Tories need to win o...
May 10, 2017
Mexico, Canada weathering same Trump storm on NAFTA, but will solidarity hold?
OTTAWA - To hear Pierre Alarie tell it, Mexico and Canada are like two weary travellers seeking shelter from the same storm - the fierce bluster from Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the Nor...
May 10, 2017
Among female voters, Lisa Raitt sees a path to victory in Conservative race
OTTAWA - Lisa Raitt chose to enter the Conservative party leadership race after a kitchen-table conversation with family and friends in her hometown of Sydney, N.S. But it’s the conversations sh...
May 10, 2017
Five stories in the news today, May 10
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 10 --- BRITISH COLUMBIA VOTERS ELECT MINORITY GOVERNMENT British Columbia has its first minority government in 65 years with the Green party holding the bal...
May 10, 2017
B.C. limbo: provincial election results in doubt for at least two more weeks
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s election hangs in the balance with thousands of votes still to be counted, kicking off weeks of speculation and backroom negotiations with the newly influential Gr...
May 10, 2017
John McCain, Jimmy Carter, and Canadian lumber: one's more sympathetic
WASHINGTON - Two historic figures in American politics spoke about the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute this week - one sympathetic to the northern neighbour, and the other less so. The good cop: J...
May 10, 2017
Marijuana to take less than 1 per cent out of multibillion-dollar booze sales: study
MONTREAL - The recreational marijuana industry is expected to take a sip of less than one per cent initially out of annual Canadian alcohol sales once it becomes legal, a new analysis says. The Anders...
May 10, 2017
Deputy Ontario NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to run for federal leadership
OTTAWA - Ontario deputy NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is poised to launch a bid for federal leadership next week, The Canadian Press has learned. Sources familiar with Singh’s plans say he will make ...
May 10, 2017