Category Archives: Canada
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
No foreign buyers tax for people with work permit: B.C. premier
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s premier has announced her government is amending its tax on foreigners buying property in Metro Vancouver. Christy Clark says the levy will be lifted for those who...
Jan 29, 2017
Armed forces deployed to hardest hit areas in the wake of N.B. storm: premier
SHIPPAGAN, N.B. - The military is sending 200 troops to New Brunswick to back up ongoing relief efforts in the areas that have been hardest hit by last week’s ice storm. New Brunswick’s pr...
Jan 29, 2017
Canadian tech community issues call for visas for people displaced by Trump
WATERLOO, Ont. - An open letter signed by members of Canada’s tech community is calling for the federal government to offer visas to people whose lives have been left in limbo because of U.S. Pr...
Jan 29, 2017