Category Archives: Canada

Veterans Affairs slow to approve assistance for ill, injured ex-soldiers
OTTAWA - Canada’s Veterans Affairs Department has been struggling to process requests for assistance from ill and injured ex-soldiers in a timely manner, with many having to wait more than four ...
Jan 05, 2017

Couple entrapped by police in terror plot don't need peace bond: defence
VANCOUVER - Crown lawyers in British Columbia are trying to use a peace bond hearing as a second chance to prosecute a man freed after a judge ruled police had manipulated him into carrying out a terr...
Jan 05, 2017

Nova Scotia fish kill 'subsiding,' but cause remains unclear: officials
HALIFAX - Officials have ruled out human activity as the cause of Nova Scotia’s dramatic fish kill, but say we may never know exactly why tens of thousands of dead herring washed ashore. Fisheri...
Jan 05, 2017
Fleeing alleged drug trafficker tracked by GPS monitor on ankle, police say
KINGSTON, Ont. - An accused drug trafficker apparently forgot about the GPS tracking device on his ankle when he allegedly fled police while carrying a firearm and drugs. Police in Kingston, Ont., say...
Jan 05, 2017
Alberta says deal reached to settle dispute with Christian school association
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Alberta’s largest home-schooling agency is back in business but on a tight financial leash following a messy court dispute involving allegations of misspending of public ...
Jan 05, 2017
Winnipeg police investigating hate crime after anti-Semitic incident
Winnipeg police are investigating after a couple say they came home New Year’s Eve to find a large rock painted with an anti-Semitic message near their front steps. B’nai Brith says the ho...
Jan 05, 2017
Nine-year term urged for U.S. man who plotted sex with 13-year-old Canadian
TORONTO - American prosecutors are pushing for a nine-year prison term and indefinite probation for a man who flew to Canada to have sex with a 13-year-old girl who had sent him nude videos. In pushin...
Jan 05, 2017
Soldier denied promotion due to PTSD should have case reviewed: court
A Canadian Armed Forces soldier who was denied a promotion because his post-traumatic stress disorder prevented him from completing a required course should have his case re-evaluated to reflect the m...
Jan 05, 2017

'I will fix it,' struggling ex-soldier said before Nova Scotia murder-suicides
A clearer picture is emerging of the former soldier involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Nova Scotia, with his own words on social media revealing a man struggling with PTSD who was trying to get...
Jan 05, 2017
East Coast business magazine trolled, praised over issue dedicated to women
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The executive editor of Atlantic Business Magazine says their first issue dedicated to women has created some backlash from online trolls. Executive editor Dawn Chafe says the...
Jan 05, 2017