Category Archives: Canada
N.B. to give political parties financial incentives to field women candidates
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s government is winning praise for its plan - thought to be a Canadian first - to give political parties a financial incentive to field more women candidates. Premier...
Mar 29, 2017
Hockey player, father charged after referee allegedly assaulted during game:RCMP
CHARLOTTETOWN - A teenaged hockey player and his father are facing charges following an alleged assault on a referee during a game in Prince Edward Island. The RCMP say the official received minor inj...
Mar 29, 2017
California family to reunite with missing cat found in southern Ontario
It’s anyone’s guess how BooBoo the cat travelled more than 3,000 kilometres from California to Canada, but its American owner says she can’t wait to be reunited with her brown tabby,...
Mar 29, 2017
Eight-year difference in sentence sought by Crown, defence in drunk driving case
VANCOUVER - The deep-rooted effects of Canada’s residential school system must be considered in the sentencing of a drunk driver who killed three people after mowing down two cyclists on a Briti...
Mar 29, 2017
Saskatchewan woman pleads guilty to mischief; tried to fake husband's death
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman who along with her husband tried to fake his death has received a six-month conditional sentence that includes four months of house arrest. Michelle Ross of...
Mar 29, 2017
'In his head, he's going to the Olympics,' says brother of Mark McMorris
VANCOUVER - One of the first questions Mark McMorris asked doctors following a horrific crash over the weekend was if he would be healthy in time to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics. His older brot...
Mar 29, 2017
Quebec ready to ban cops from having second jobs after snowstorm debacle
Quebec’s public security minister says he’s ready to act to prevent high-ranking provincial police officers from having second jobs outside the force. Martin Coiteux says he’ll modif...
Mar 29, 2017
Climate change moving park ecosystems out from current zones: study
EDMONTON - Climate change is pulling the environmental rug out from under the great majority of the parks and protected areas in North America, federal research suggests. Marc-Andre Parisien, of the C...
Mar 29, 2017
Trudeau says still committed to carbon tax, gets called a scumbag by protester
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s still committed to a carbon tax despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to eliminate many restrictions on fossil fuel production and r...
Mar 29, 2017
Wandering child no excuse for police to search home, Appeal Court rules
TORONTO - A man with a marijuana grow-op in his basement has had his drug conviction thrown out because police had no right to enter his home - even though his four-year-old had been found wandering a...
Mar 29, 2017