Category Archives: Canada
Five Nova Scotia universities sue teachers over work-to-rule job action
HALIFAX - Five universities say they are suing the Nova Scotia Teachers Union over the work-to-rule campaign in its ongoing contract dispute with the province. The five - Acadia, Cape Breton, Mount Sa...
Jan 30, 2017
Five stories in the news today, Jan. 30
Five stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 30 --- ATTACK ON QUEBEC CITY MOSQUE LEAVES 6 DEAD, 8 INJURED An attack on a Quebec City mosque has left six people dead and eight others injured. Provincial p...
Jan 30, 2017

Canadian protesters decry Trump's U.S. travel ban; urge Trudeau action
TORONTO - Hundreds of people gathered outside a shut-down U.S. consulate in Toronto and elsewhere in Canada on Monday to denounce the American entry ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim count...
Jan 30, 2017

B.C. health officer leads push for European-style heroin treatment programs
VICTORIA - Prescribing medicinal heroin to prevent overdose deaths might appear to clash with common sense, but the provincial health officer in B.C. is backing the idea because he says European-style...
Jan 30, 2017

Saskatchewan spill highlights problems with pipeline leak detection systems
CALGARY - Clint Big Eagle says the whiff of oil permeated the frigid Saskatchewan air for about a week and a half before he decided to pull over and investigate. “The kids are all, ‘ItR...
Jan 30, 2017

Soldiers clear roads, help senior clean out freezer in N.B. ice-storm cleanup
LAMEQUE, N.B. - Troops went door-to-door Monday, helping northeastern New Brunswick recover from a devastating ice storm that has been linked to two deaths and almost three dozen hospitalizations from...
Jan 30, 2017
A list of terrorist incidents in Canada
Here is a list of terrorist attacks and incidents in Canada: Jan. 29, 2017: Six dead and eight injured after shooting incident at a Quebec City mosque. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier...
Jan 29, 2017
A list of terrorist incidents in Canada
Here is a list of terrorist attacks and incidents in Canada: Jan. 29, 2017: Six dead after shooting incident at a Quebec City mosque. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillar...
Jan 29, 2017

Quebec police say six dead and eight injured in mosque attack
QUEBEC - In what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard both called a “terrorist attack,” six people were killed and eight others injured in a shooting at a Quebec Ci...
Jan 29, 2017
About a dozen Quebec nurses suspended for stealing fentanyl over last decade
MONTREAL - Fentanyl, the powerful opioid currently preoccupying public health authorities, isn’t just a problem on the streets. About a dozen Quebec nurses have been temporarily suspended over t...
Jan 29, 2017