Category Archives: Canada
Budget office says Liberal spending estimates short $2.5B on infrastructure
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office and the Liberals clashed again Thursday over the government’s infrastructure spending program, with the watchdog saying billions were missing from planne...
Mar 09, 2017
Canadian Natural buying Shell, Marathon oilsands holdings for $12.74 billion
CALGARY - Canadian Natural Resources has struck a blockbuster $12.74-billion deal to buy Alberta oilsands assets from Royal Dutch Shell and Marathon Oil, boosting its exposure to the higher-cost secto...
Mar 09, 2017
Tory leadership hopefuls grant interviews to anti-Islam, pro-white 'journalist'
OTTAWA - Some federal Conservative leadership contenders have given interviews to a self-proclaimed online journalist who regularly posts accolades to the superiority of white people, along with diatr...
Mar 09, 2017
Seven stories in the news today, March 9
Seven stories in the news for Thursday, March 9: --- SHELL OFFLOADS CANADIAN OILSANDS INTERESTS Royal Dutch Shell says it has signed two agreements to sell its undeveloped oilsands interests in Canada...
Mar 09, 2017
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to seek re-election in 2018
Ottawa’s mayor says he will seek re-election in the 2018 municipal election. In a lengthy statement posted on Facebook early today, Jim Watson said serving as mayor has been a “tremendous ...
Mar 09, 2017
Jury overwhelmed by medical evidence in toddler meningitis case: defence
CALGARY - A lawyer for parents convicted in the meningitis death of their toddler says the trial judge allowed the jury to be overwhelmed by medical evidence, but the Crown says the couple received a ...
Mar 09, 2017
Design of Halifax's first monument to women unveiled: 'Times have changed'
HALIFAX - During the Second World War, Peggy McAlpine made a lot of sandwiches - thousands of them. Halifax was bustling in wartime, clogged with young servicemen waiting to board ships headed oversea...
Mar 09, 2017
University study to look at using cannabis to treat childhood epilepsy
SASKATOON - Thirty children from across Canada are being recruited to take part in a new pilot study at the University of Saskatchewan looking at the safety and tolerability of cannabis treatment for ...
Mar 08, 2017
Military SAR technician killed in training accident in Saskatchewan
YORKTON, Sask. - A search and rescue technician with the Royal Canadian Air Force has died in a training accident near Yorkton, Sask. Master-Corporal Alfred Barr was a member of 435 Transport and Resc...
Mar 08, 2017
Emmanuella Lambropoulos stuns Liberals to win nomination to replace Stephane Dion
MONTREAL - A 26-year-old high school teacher who was a virtual political unknown defeated a former provincial cabinet minister Wednesday to win the Liberal nomination for a federal byelection in a Mon...
Mar 08, 2017