Category Archives: Canada
President of Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested by the RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - The president of the vigilante group Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested Monday night following a confrontation with a man the organization’s members accused of being a ped...
Apr 04, 2017
Company charged in English Bay fuel spill must challenge summons in B.C. court
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has rejected an application for judicial review filed by a Greece-based company facing charges in a 2015 fuel spill in Vancouver’s English Bay, saying it must m...
Apr 04, 2017
Project to walk schoolkids through troubled black orphanage in virtual reality
HALIFAX - Gerry Morrison’s childhood memories of life in the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children are painful, but he has agreed to re-live them so a ground-breaking virtual-reality project can...
Apr 04, 2017
B.C. ultramarathoner finishes six seconds late of 60-hour cutoff in 160-km race
VANCOUVER - A last-minute mistake that put Gary Robbins six seconds short of becoming the 16th person to ever finish a torturous 160-kilometre ultramarathon is haunting the North Vancouver man. In a b...
Apr 04, 2017
North Bay, Ont., council votes to keep home where Dionne quintuplets were born in the city
City council in North Bay, Ont., voted Tuesday night to adopt a committee’s recommendation and keep the home where the Dionne quintuplets were born and its contents in the city but move them 2.1...
Apr 04, 2017
New Brunswick to provide abortion pill Mifegymiso free of charge
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has become the first province to announce it will offer the abortion pill Mifegymiso to women free of charge, a major shift for a province with a history of restricting abo...
Apr 04, 2017
Fewer listings, strong demand helps Vancouver-area real estate rally
VANCOUVER - Home sales in Metro Vancouver are bouncing back after a dismal February, but the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says transactions are still almost 31 per cent below the March 2016 ...
Apr 04, 2017
More government intervention may be needed to cool Toronto house prices: Scotiabank
TORONTO - Further government intervention will be needed if Toronto house prices continue soaring after the spring homebuying season, the head of Canadian banking at Scotiabank said Tuesday. James O&#...
Apr 04, 2017
New ways of picking judges not foolproof, education still needed: Ambrose
OTTAWA - Changes the Liberals have made to the way judges are appointed would not necessarily prevent someone who believes in stereotypes about sexual assault cases from presiding over one of those tr...
Apr 04, 2017
Senate committee confronts one of their own over sexual relationship with teen
OTTAWA - The head of the Senate’s ethics committee says all options are on the table when it comes to possible punishments for Sen. Don Meredith over his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old g...
Apr 04, 2017