Category Archives: Canada

'We're all hurting': Calgary arts cut to the bone as corporate funds dry up
Calgary’s performing arts scene has become a casualty of corporate cost-cutting as the city’s economic doldrums drag into a third year, prompting organizations to band together to seek mor...
Mar 26, 2017
Halifax debates developers' influence as N.S. capital undergoes condo boom
HALIFAX - A suggestion that Halifax councillors who accept money from developers should stop voting on their proposed buildings has rekindled a debate over whether such campaign contributions could am...
Mar 26, 2017

Home buyers, tenants from Lower Mainland moving to outlying areas to live
POWELL RIVER, B.C. - David Repa recalls the shock he felt sitting down at a bank after selling his Vancouver business in 2013 and realizing for the first time how much of “a joke” his pros...
Mar 26, 2017
NewsAlert: Police say four people found dead in B.C. home Friday afternoon
ASHCROFT, B.C. - Four people were found dead in a home in a remote community in the B.C. Interior, RCMP said Saturday. Officers found the bodies when responding to a request for a check at a home in V...
Mar 25, 2017
Mounties confirm deaths at Moberly Lake, B.C., home a double murder-suicide
CHETWYND, B.C. - RCMP say the deaths of three people found in a Moberly Lake, B.C., residence earlier this month was a double murder-suicide. Officers responded to reports of a disturbance in a subdiv...
Mar 25, 2017
Award-winning author Richard Wagamese honoured at Saturday memorial
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Although Edna Manitowabi did not know author and journalist Richard Wagamese well, she knew the power of his words. The Ojibway elder and professor emeritus at Trent University in Pet...
Mar 25, 2017
Halifax man charged for assaulting distracted texter, police say
HALIFAX - A Halifax man has been charged with assault after he became enraged by a fellow pedestrian distracted by her cellphone, police say. Halifax Regional Police said the man punched the woman to ...
Mar 25, 2017

Minister Hajdu says longer leave not for all, but higher-paid moms need help too
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said even wealthier women need more support when it comes to moving from their careers into motherhood - and back again. The 2017 budget extended parental leave to...
Mar 25, 2017
Parks Canada re-opens beach on Vancouver Island after wolf attack last week
UCLUELET, B.C. - A popular section of a national park on Vancouver Island that was closed following a wolf attack last week has re-opened. Parks Canada says Wickaninnish Beach in Pacific Rim National ...
Mar 25, 2017

PM: UN peacekeeping mission possible in 2017, even though Canada mum on details
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending troops to a peacekeeping mission this year, even though Canada has not yet told the United Nations what it is up to. “We have a d...
Mar 25, 2017