Category Archives: Canada
UBC president 'deeply regrets' cancellation of John Furlong speech
VANCOUVER - University of British Columbia president Santa Ono has apologized for the school’s decision to cancel a planned speech by former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong. Ono said in a sta...
Jan 03, 2017
Police 'monitoring' as
Halifax marijuana store re-opens after police raid
HALIFAX - A Halifax marijuana dispensary has re-opened after being raided last week, and police aren’t ruling out further charges. “While our officers use discretion for situations involvi...
Jan 03, 2017
Moosehead backs away from opening small-batch brewery in Saint John
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Moosehead Breweries says it’s no longer going ahead with plans to build a small-batch brewery on the waterfront in Saint John, N.B. In June, the company said it was looking fo...
Jan 03, 2017
Ontario woman killed in Istanbul attack remembered as happy and always smiling
MILTON, Ont. - A friend of an Ontario woman killed in an attack on a Turkish nightclub remembers her as a happy person who was always smiling. Ahmed Atrakchi said Alaa Al-Muhandis was part of the tigh...
Jan 03, 2017
Canadian woman reportedly dies in Italian hiking incident: media reports
A young Ontario woman who had recently moved to Europe with her fiance died on New Year’s Day after falling off a mountain path during a hike near the Italian-Austrian border. Chelsea Rebecca Al...
Jan 03, 2017
Scheer calls on O'Leary to join Tory leadership race before French debate
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Andrew Scheer is accusing possible candidate Kevin O’Leary of trying to avoid an all-French debate in two weeks. Scheer released a statement Tuesday urgi...
Jan 03, 2017
Oldest known member of southern B.C. killer whale pod believed dead
VANCOUVER - The death of a whale considered the oldest in the West Coast’s southern resident population could particularly affect one animal who may have lost yet another adoptive mother, a wild...
Jan 03, 2017
Most southwest Nova Scotia beaches now clear of dead herring: officials
DIGBY, N.S. - Fisheries officials say the flood of dead herring washing up on southwest Nova Scotia beaches has slowed. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says it is monitoring for “evidence of new inc...
Jan 03, 2017
Quebec man identified by family as victim after New Year's Eve party in Thailand
MONTREAL - Relatives of a Canadian man who died after a New Year’s Eve party in Thailand are remembering him as a “bright light” whose sudden death has devastated them. Family member...
Jan 03, 2017
Milton, Ont., woman identified as Canadian killed in Istanbul attack: reports
TORONTO - Global Affairs Canada has confirmed the Canadian woman killed in an attack on a Turkish nightclub is Alaa Al-Muhandis. She was one of the 39 people killed, most of them foreign tourists, whe...
Jan 03, 2017