Category Archives: Canada
Trade, trade-offs, and O'Leary: three ways politics touched Canadians this week
OTTAWA - The pageantry of the Donald Trump inauguration absorbed most of the political oxygen in Ottawa this week, mainly because the subtext was a growing realization that so many facets of Canadian ...
Jan 20, 2017
Group plans interactive Titanic museum for Niagara Falls, Ont.
An interactive museum that hopes to recreate the experience of sailing on board the Titanic may be coming to Canada. A group in Niagara Falls, Ont., has conditionally purchased land that would house t...
Jan 20, 2017
Anglican Church working on formal apology for damage wrought by pedophile priest
OTTAWA - The Anglican Church of Canada says it is working on a formal national apology to the victims of a notorious priest who preyed on boys in First Nations communities in the 1970s and 1980s. Ralp...
Jan 20, 2017
Nova Scotia strikes deal with teachers union, job action suspended
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Teachers Union says it will suspend its work-to-rule campaign beginning Monday after reaching a tentative agreement with the provincial government. Neither side would discuss...
Jan 20, 2017
Tim Hortons billionaire co-founder loses bid to have sex-assault suit tossed
TORONTO - A woman’s lawsuit alleging that the billionaire co-founder of Tim Hortons sexually assaulted her at his home will have to be decided at a full-blown trial, Ontario’s top court ru...
Jan 20, 2017
B.C. Mountie who bought cocaine is handed conditional discharge
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A former Mountie from the Kamloops, B.C., detachment will not be serving any jail time after pleading guilty to buying cocaine on three separate occasions. Randi Love, 41, was handed ...
Jan 20, 2017
Trump's protectionist inaugural address sparks concerns in Canada's oilpatch
CALGARY - Donald Trump’s fiercely protectionist inaugural address is a clarion call for Canada to nurture its relationships with other countries and do everything possible to access markets abro...
Jan 20, 2017
La Loche schools close after RCMP receive threat of another school shooting
LA LOCHE, Sask. - Classes have been cancelled in La Loche, Sask., after RCMP say there was a threat of a school shooting one year after a deadly shooting in the community. Mounties say they received a...
Jan 20, 2017
2 charged in alleged fentanyl prescription fraud in Pickering, Ont.
PICKERING, Ont. - Two people are facing charges after allegedly fraudulent prescriptions were used to obtain fentanyl from a pharmacy east of Toronto. Durham regional police say a man went to a Picker...
Jan 20, 2017
Montrealers march and burn U.S. flag in protest of Trump's inauguration
MONTREAL - Protesters in Montreal burned an American flag and an effigy of Donald Trump on Friday in the first of several planned demonstrations against the new U.S. president. About 200 people marche...
Jan 20, 2017