Category Archives: Canada

Canadian Bernie Herms hopes Grammy win inspires his family to 'dream big'
Canadian producer Bernie Herms is finally enjoying the sweet taste of Grammy Awards glory. After eight nominations, the London, Ont.-born songwriter pocketed his first win Sunday for “Thy Will,&...
Feb 12, 2017
No winning ticket for $7 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the draw’s $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket purchased in Atl...
Feb 12, 2017

Conservatives pause hostilities with Liberals on eve of Trump, Trudeau meeting
OTTAWA - The past, present and potential future of the federal Conservative party offered their Liberal rivals an unprecedented show of solidarity Sunday on the eve of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Feb 12, 2017

RCMP say 21 people arrested for illegally crossing border at Emerson, Manitoba
EMERSON, Man. - The Mounties say 21 people crossed the border illegally this weekend near a Manitoba community where there has been a surge in asylum seekers - the latest to arrive in a method authori...
Feb 11, 2017

Nova Scotia premier promises to 'bring an end' to teachers dispute
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier is turning again to a legislative hammer to try to settle the ongoing contract dispute with the province’s 9,300 public school teachers, but the union’...
Feb 11, 2017
Canadians protest Liberals' broken electoral reform promise across the country
TORONTO - Protesters staged demonstrations across Canada Saturday to attack the governing Liberals’ decision to abandon their promise of electoral reform. Hundreds of people turned out to the To...
Feb 11, 2017
Canadian High Commission event in Singapore cancelled after accident kills one
SINGAPORE - The Canadian High Commission in Singapore cancelled a Canada 150 event at the Botanic Gardens after an accident left one person dead. The federal government says the person killed and four...
Feb 11, 2017

Concern expressed about release of man who killed Greyhound bus passenger
WINNIPEG - The federal Opposition leader and the mother of a man who was beheaded and cannibalized on a Greyhound bus are criticizing a decision to grant complete freedom to the man who committed the ...
Feb 11, 2017

Trudeau meets Trump: How past PMs have dealt with unpopular U.S. presidents
WASHINGTON - Canada’s prime minister has to go see the U.S. president, and he’s not especially thrilled. The president is deeply unpopular in Canada - and elsewhere, since campaigning on p...
Feb 11, 2017
Coquihalla Highway closed again overnight due to spun out trucks
VANCOUVER - It’s been another tough night for travellers on British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway. DriveBC says a stretch of Highway 5 between Hope and Merritt was closed in both direction...
Feb 11, 2017