Category Archives: Canada
An otter, a goat and stingrays: A list of some animal deaths at the Calgary Zoo
CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo said Thursday that seven of its Humboldt penguins drowned in their holding area. Here are some other animal deaths at the zoo: February 2016: Two staff members are discipline...
Dec 08, 2016
Seven Humboldt penguins dead at Calgary Zoo; official says they drowned
CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo says seven of its Humboldt penguins drowned in their holding area. Jamie Dorgan, director of animal care, says an investigation has begun to try to figure out what happened. ...
Dec 08, 2016
Quebec to offer lumber companies loan guarantees even without Ottawa
Quebec has committed to providing loan guarantees to companies adversely affected by the softwood lumber dispute with the United States, even if the federal government doesn’t come on board. Pre...
Dec 08, 2016
Historians shrug as two prime ministers erased from Canadian banknotes
Losing two of Canada’s wartime prime ministers from the country’s $50 and $100 bills won’t be a step backwards for a country that has plenty to learn about itself, a pair of leading ...
Dec 08, 2016
QuickFacts: how Viola Desmond became the new face of the $10 bill
OTTAWA - Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond will be the face on the $10 bill when a new series of banknotes begins circulating in 2018. Here’s a look at how that came to be: - Last January, Fina...
Dec 08, 2016
Some of what was said Thursday about putting Viola Desmond on $10 bill
OTTAWA - Viola Desmond, who was arrested in 1946 after refusing to leave a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, has been chosen to be the first Canadian woman to grace the front of a Ca...
Dec 08, 2016
Goodale keeps door open to CSIS use of metadata gathered from innocent people
OTTAWA - The federal public safety minister is keeping the door open to the idea of Canada’s spy agency crunching potentially sensitive data about innocent people. Ralph Goodale told MPs at a Ho...
Dec 08, 2016
Quebec First Nation lays claim to downtown Ottawa, including Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - A Quebec First Nation has filed a lawsuit seeking aboriginal title over much of downtown Ottawa, including Parliament Hill. “The Algonquin Anishinabe Nation has never surrendered its ti...
Dec 08, 2016
B.C. opens sites similar to supervised-injection sites without federal exemption
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is opening new locations where people can inject illicit drugs while monitored by trained staff - but the province says it isn’t skirting the law on supervised-injec...
Dec 08, 2016
Smallpox may be more modern disease, not ancient, as long thought: researchers
TORONTO - It’s long been thought that smallpox is an ancient infectious disease that began decimating human populations thousands of years ago, but new genetic research is casting doubt on that ...
Dec 08, 2016