Category Archives: Canada
'I could see the look of fear in her eyes:' Passenger in fatal gas and dash
CALGARY - The passenger in a truck involved in a fatal hit and run cried as he described seeing the fear in a gas station employee’s eyes and the colour drain from her face before she was run ov...
May 02, 2017
Police to probe corruption claims made by police union against Quebec Liberals
QUEBEC - The Crown prosecutor’s office in Quebec called Tuesday for a criminal inquiry into corruption allegations made by the head of Montreal’s police union against the Quebec Liberal pa...
May 02, 2017
Body of second missing Alberta hunter found; search continues for two others
FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. - Searchers have discovered a second body in their quest to find four men who disappeared during a hunting trip last month in northeastern Alberta. RCMP say the body was recovere...
May 02, 2017
WestJet orders longer-range Boeings as part of wider expansion plans
CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) has set out a plan to expand both internationally and into ultra-low cost offerings that has raised concerns from some analysts about being overly ambitious. ...
May 02, 2017
Man's death in New Brunswick prison preventable: correctional investigator
DORCHESTER, N.B. - The death of a man who was repeatedly pepper sprayed at a New Brunswick prison was preventable, Canada’s correctional investigator has found in a damning review that concludes...
May 02, 2017
Aftershocks still rumbling following 6.2 quake that jolted Yukon, northwest B.C.
WHITEHORSE - More than 100 aftershocks had shivered across the Alaska Panhandle, southern Yukon and parts of northwestern British Columbia by early Tuesday following two powerful earthquakes a day ear...
May 02, 2017
Commons committee calls for rollback of key C-51 anti-terror measures
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for repeal of a provision that allows Canada’s spy agency to violate constitutional rights, with a judge’s permission, in the name of disru...
May 02, 2017
Public security minister preaches patience as Quebec towns deal with flooding
MONTREAL - Quebec’s public security minister asked flood-stricken communities to be patient on Tuesday as forecasts called for more rain this week. Numerous Quebec municipalities that border str...
May 02, 2017
Canadian woman, American boyfriend found dead in Belize were strangled: police
Police in Belize were questioning “a few people” Wednesday in connection with the strangulation deaths of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend but no arrests have been made yet. The...
May 02, 2017
Student-on-student abuse in residential schools an 'unspoken truth': Sinclair
OTTAWA - The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls “student-on-student” abuse one untold story of Canada’s residential school legacy - an issue he says is ...
May 02, 2017