Category Archives: Canada
'Still very early:' Alberta economy improving, but no change to $10.8B deficit
EDMONTON - A rebounding oil sector is delivering an extra $1.5 million to the Alberta government this year, but Finance Minister Joe Ceci says that money - and more - has already been spent and the de...
Feb 23, 2017
Pro football's first black quarterback Bernie Custis dies at age 88
All Bernie Custis wanted was the chance to be a pro quarterback, but to Damon Allen he will always be a football pioneer. Custis, pro football’s first black quarterback who blazed the trail for ...
Feb 23, 2017
Wearing boots but in the buff, Prince George toddler OK after wandering outside
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The RCMP are thanking a Canada Post employee in British Columbia for helping solve a case involving a nude toddler who had gone missing. The three-year-old boy was wearing nothin...
Feb 23, 2017
UN refugee agency monitoring asylum seekers crossing Canada-U.S.. border
OTTAWA - The United Nations refugee agency is keeping a careful eye on the situation at informal crossings along the Canada-U.S. border where dozens of people have been arriving in recent weeks in sea...
Feb 23, 2017
Man claims GPS led him into Toronto transit tunnel where car got stuck: TTC
TORONTO - A man who allegedly drove his SUV into a streetcar tunnel on Thursday, bringing traffic in downtown Toronto to a halt for several hours, reportedly told transit officials he was following hi...
Feb 23, 2017
Canada Revenue Agency expects to track down $400M in tax crackdown
OTTAWA - Canadian tax authorities expect to track down $400 million this year they say are owed as part of a campaign to crack down on tax evasion by big international companies and wealthy individual...
Feb 23, 2017
Wall with Canada? White House spokesman, media share a laugh over question
WASHINGTON - White House spokesman Sean Spicer laughed off the idea of building a wall along the northern U.S. border Thursday after a journalist from Montana floated the notion during his daily media...
Feb 23, 2017
Number of Canadians with prescriptions for medical pot soaring, now almost 130K
TORONTO - The number of Canadians registered to purchase medical marijuana from licensed producers has exploded since the federal commercial-access program was introduced almost four years ago, reachi...
Feb 23, 2017
Compromise proposed in dispute over police presence in Vancouver Pride Parade
VANCOUVER - Organizers behind Vancouver’s Pride Parade have countered demands that police be banned from marching in the city’s annual event by suggesting that officers show up in fewer nu...
Feb 23, 2017
Seven cases of measles confirmed in Halifax, risk remains low: health official
HALIFAX - Four more cases of measles have been confirmed by health officials in the Halifax area, bringing the total number of known cases in Nova Scotia to seven. Last week, the Nova Scotia Health Au...
Feb 23, 2017