Category Archives: Canada
Poppy crosswalk to honour veterans in Vernon, B.C., rejected by legion
VERNON, B.C. - Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund says the city is working on a new plan to honour veterans after the Royal Canadian Legion rejected a proposed poppy crosswalk. The British Columbia city likened ...
Mar 14, 2017
Home prices post record February increase: Teranet-National Bank index
TORONTO - Canadian home prices posted a record jump for the month of February, fuelled by the Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver markets. The Teranet-National Bank national composite house price index ga...
Mar 14, 2017
Winter storm settles into southern Ontario, stretches from Windsor to Quebec
TORONTO - The merging of two major weather systems will leave a huge stretch of central Canada blanketed in snow, Environment Canada said Tuesday. Meteorologist Mark Schuster said a system that was or...
Mar 14, 2017
Proposed spaceport would bring defunct N.S. town back to the cutting edge
CANSO, N.S. - It’s a 400-year-old Nova Scotia fishing village struggling to stay afloat - times have been so tough the town was dissolved five years ago. Now, tiny Canso is being touted as the f...
Mar 14, 2017
Body of SAR Tech killed in training exercise returned to Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - The body of a Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue technician who died during a training exercise near Yorkton, Sask., last week has been returned to Winnipeg. Master Cpl. Alfred Barr...
Mar 14, 2017
Six stories in the news today, March 14
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, March 14: --- NIGEL WRIGHT STILL SUBJECT OF ETHICS PROBE Almost a full year after Sen. Mike Duffy was acquitted on 31 charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust...
Mar 14, 2017
Ethics watchdog continues investigation into Wright's $90K payment to Mike Duffy
OTTAWA - Almost a full year after Sen. Mike Duffy was acquitted on 31 charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, the man who paid him $90,000 remains under investigation by the federal ethics watc...
Mar 14, 2017
Toronto man appealing sex assault conviction says judge was biased
TORONTO - A judge who referenced research on gendered violence in convicting a Toronto man of sexual assault appeared to be biased against him, the man’s lawyers alleged Tuesday at his appeal he...
Mar 14, 2017
Homeless woman who was viciously beaten attends attacker's hearing
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman whose legs had to be amputated after she was viciously beaten and burned has attended the opening of a dangerous offender hearing for the man who pleaded gu...
Mar 13, 2017
Manitoba prepared to stand alone in health care fight with Ottawa: Pallister
WINNIPEG - Manitoba is not worried about being the last province standing in a health-funding dispute with Ottawa and will not be rushed into accepting any deals, Premier Brian Pallister said Monday. ...
Mar 13, 2017