Category Archives: Canada
Ethics committee calls for expulsion of Sen. Don Meredith over sex with teen
OTTAWA - The Senate ethics committee has recommended that the upper house take the unprecedented step of expelling disgraced Sen. Don Meredith for engaging in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl...
May 02, 2017
N.S. pharmacist sanctioned for baking medical marijuana into cookies
HALIFAX - A pharmacist in Cape Breton has been fired and temporarily stripped of her licence for baking marijuana cookies for a patient and packaging them in a prescription bag. The Nova Scotia Colleg...
May 02, 2017
Canada to see some 'modest' gains from trade deal with Europe: budget watchdog
OTTAWA - Canada’s free-trade pact with Europe is poised to produce “modest” economic gains that work out to an average annual income boost of $220 per Canadian, the federal budget wa...
May 02, 2017
B.C. HIV/AIDS researcher among winners of $100,000 Killam Prize
OTTAWA - Leading HIV/AIDS researcher Julio Montaner is among a group of scientists, writers, doctors and researchers receiving a prestigious prize for brilliant work in fields including health science...
May 02, 2017
Northern Canadian man who wished for death by police dead after Mountie shooting
HALL BEACH, Nunavut - RCMP in Nunavut say a man who died following a police-involved shooting had used social media to express a desire for death at the hands of the Mounties. Officers in the tiny com...
May 02, 2017
How Canada's first women's shelter saved women and their children from abuse
Jan knew she had to leave. It was 1973 and her husband spent most days drinking and seething with rage. One afternoon, he smacked her on the back of the head, knocking her to the floor and nearly crac...
May 02, 2017
At least 166 people deemed homeless on one day in St. John's, N.L.: report
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Hundreds of people - including dozens of youth - are forced to sleep at emergency shelters, friends’ homes and in parks throughout the year in St. John’s, N.L., ac...
May 02, 2017
Dion tacitly pans Le Pen, wants France to have pro-Europe leader
OTTAWA - Former Liberal leader Stephane Dion - the prime minister’s hand-picked special envoy to Europe - has weighed in on France’s fractious election, saying Canada wants the new French ...
May 02, 2017
Canadian Muslim preacher banned from entering Denmark for two years
COPENHAGEN - A Canadian Muslim preacher is among six foreign clerics who are banned from entering Denmark for two years due to their “anti-democratic” views. Denmark’s Integration Mi...
May 02, 2017
'Beyond our wildest dreams': Canada's 'Come From Away' earns 7 Tony nominations
NEW YORK - The married co-creators of “Come From Away” were celebrating their six-year-journey from Gander, N.L., to the bright lights of Broadway on Tuesday as their uplifting, made-in-Ca...
May 02, 2017