Category Archives: Canada
The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, April 19 --- RCMP SAY 887 PEOPLE TRIED TO ILLEGALLY ENTER CANADA LAST MONTH: The number of people stopped by the RCMP after illegally entering Canada rose ...
Apr 19, 2017
Liberal party in British Columbia gives back donations worth over $174,000
VANCOUVER - New reports released by Elections BC show the Liberal party returned almost $175,000 in political contributions it received in the last six years. A Liberal party spokeswoman said in an em...
Apr 19, 2017
Toronto zoo holds naming contest for three capybara babies
Toronto’s newborn capybara triplets are in need of names and zoo officials are asking for ideas. The pups were born last month to the High Park Zoo’s wandering capybara couple, who escaped...
Apr 19, 2017
Man with cannibal fantasies gets taxpayer funded lawyer for murder appeal
TORONTO - A man convicted of butchering his best friend at a hotel and stuffing the body parts into two hockey bags can have a taxpayer-funded lawyer to argue his appeal, Ontario’s top court rul...
Apr 19, 2017
Gillian Anderson calls on prime minister to end East Coast seal hunt
The East Coast seal hunt has another celebrity foe: X-Files star Gillian Anderson. Anderson has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to end the annual commercial hunt. In a letter Wednesday to the ...
Apr 19, 2017
Toll reaches almost four a day in B.C.'s overdose crisis: coroner
VICTORIA - Nearly four people died every day last month from an illicit drug overdose in British Columbia. Data from the BC Coroners Service says 120 people died in March, the third-highest death toll...
Apr 19, 2017
RCMP stopped 887 people trying to illegally enter Canada last month
OTTAWA - The number of people stopped by the RCMP after illegally entering Canada rose in March. New figures released Wednesday by the federal government show the RCMP intercepted 887 people crossing ...
Apr 19, 2017
Quebec sets up hearings to study options for rail track in Lac-Megantic
Quebec’s environmental-review agency will hold public hearings into what to do with rail track in Lac-Megantic. Local residents have been asking for a track bypass ever since a train carrying cr...
Apr 19, 2017
Self-preservation, not profit behind accused human smugglers actions: lawyer
VANCOUVER - Four men accused of smuggling dozens of Tamil migrants into Canada were simply part of the effort to get themselves and the rest of the asylum seekers across the Pacific Ocean, their lawye...
Apr 19, 2017
Oilsands thirst for natural gas grows to nearly one-third of Canadian demand
CALGARY - Nearly one-third of the natural gas burned in Canada last year was used to produce oil from the oilsands, according to the National Energy Board. The federal regulator says nearly 2.38 billi...
Apr 19, 2017