Category Archives: Canada
Nova Scotia strikes deal with teachers union, job action suspended
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Teachers Union says it will suspend its work-to-rule campaign beginning Monday after reaching a tentative agreement with the provincial government. Neither side would discuss...
Jan 20, 2017
Tim Hortons billionaire co-founder loses bid to have sex-assault suit tossed
TORONTO - A woman’s lawsuit alleging that the billionaire co-founder of Tim Hortons sexually assaulted her at his home will have to be decided at a full-blown trial, Ontario’s top court ru...
Jan 20, 2017
B.C. Mountie who bought cocaine is handed conditional discharge
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A former Mountie from the Kamloops, B.C., detachment will not be serving any jail time after pleading guilty to buying cocaine on three separate occasions. Randi Love, 41, was handed ...
Jan 20, 2017
Trump's protectionist inaugural address sparks concerns in Canada's oilpatch
CALGARY - Donald Trump’s fiercely protectionist inaugural address is a clarion call for Canada to nurture its relationships with other countries and do everything possible to access markets abro...
Jan 20, 2017
La Loche schools close after RCMP receive threat of another school shooting
LA LOCHE, Sask. - Classes have been cancelled in La Loche, Sask., after RCMP say there was a threat of a school shooting one year after a deadly shooting in the community. Mounties say they received a...
Jan 20, 2017
2 charged in alleged fentanyl prescription fraud in Pickering, Ont.
PICKERING, Ont. - Two people are facing charges after allegedly fraudulent prescriptions were used to obtain fentanyl from a pharmacy east of Toronto. Durham regional police say a man went to a Picker...
Jan 20, 2017
Montrealers march and burn U.S. flag in protest of Trump's inauguration
MONTREAL - Protesters in Montreal burned an American flag and an effigy of Donald Trump on Friday in the first of several planned demonstrations against the new U.S. president. About 200 people marche...
Jan 20, 2017
Empty shoebox helped match bloody footprints found at crime scene in Calgary triple murder
CALGARY - An empty shoebox at the home of a man charged in the deaths of an Alberta couple and their grandson helped investigators match bloody footprints discovered at the crime scene, a murder trial...
Jan 20, 2017
Manitoba premier says indigenous night hunting is starting a 'race war'
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s premier is being criticized for saying indigenous people shouldn’t be night hunting and that the practice is creating a “race war.” Brian Pallister made t...
Jan 20, 2017
Pennsylvania woman 'embarrassed' by Donald Trump testing life in Canada
TORONTO - Marilyn Zsiros sat alone Friday in her rented Toronto apartment, hundreds of kilometres away from her home state of Pennsylvania, refusing to turn on the television to watch Donald Trump bec...
Jan 20, 2017