Category Archives: Canada
B.C. Premier Christy Clark no longer receiving stipend from party
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s premier says she is no longer receiving an annual stipend from her political party because the payment has become a distraction. Christy Clark told media at an unr...
Jan 20, 2017
Canadian court rules in Ecuadorian legal battle involving oil giant Chevron
Both sides found positives in a Canadian court ruling issued Friday in a David and Goliath legal battle between oil giant Chevron and a group of Ecuadorian villagers. The villagers are using the Canad...
Jan 20, 2017
Defence in retrial for suspect in Winnipeg teen's death questions DNA evidence
WINNIPEG - Testimony at day five at the re-trial of Mark Edward Grant in the 1985 death of Candace Derksen focused on how DNA samples were tested and handled in 2000 and 2001. The details were so tech...
Jan 20, 2017
Vancouver golf courses set to reopen after unprecedented 7-week closure
VANCOUVER - There have more than just the usual hazards on Vancouver’s public golf courses this season, in fact snow and ice conditions were so bad that the three courses were closed for an enti...
Jan 20, 2017
Mayors push Trudeau on housing dollars as step to address opioid crisis
OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada’s biggest cities are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to unleash more federal resources in order to help municipal governments combat the growing problem of fen...
Jan 20, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Jan. 20 ___ TRUMP LOOKS TO ‘HEAL OUR DIVISIONS’: U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting that his election will lead to a “new national pr...
Jan 20, 2017
Former N.S. paramedic denied funding for appeal of sex assault convictions
HALIFAX - A former paramedic convicted of two sexual assaults while on the job in Nova Scotia has lost a bid to have his appeal paid for by the province. James Duncan Keats, 52, was found guilty in De...
Jan 20, 2017
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