Canada

It's 'an important time for women' around the world, says Maryam Monsef

OTTAWA - Maryam Monsef, like all her Liberal cabinet colleagues, was careful to step around a direct question about U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. She might have actually had to be more nimble tha...

Syndicated Author Jan 19, 2017

A look at the four people who died in a mass shooting in northern Saskatchewan

Four people were killed and seven wounded in a mass shooting in a school and at a home in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche on Jan. 22, 2016. A student, who has since turned 18, has plea...

Syndicated Author Jan 19, 2017

'Get out of here!' The story from inside the La Loche school shooting

Phyllis Longobardi remembers hearing two blasts before she saw the gun. The assistant principal at the La Loche high school in northern Saskatchewan remembers that the lunch bell had rung on Jan. 22, ...

Syndicated Author Jan 19, 2017

Roberta Bondar marks 25 years since becoming Canada's first woman in space

The morning of January 22, 1992, was chilly along the east coast of Florida. NASA officials watched the temperatures closely - just six years earlier, cold temperatures contributed to the Challenger d...

Syndicated Author Jan 19, 2017

Complaint filed over treatment of German shepherd on Winnipeg-area film set

WINNIPEG - A Toronto-based animal law organization has filed animal cruelty complaints over the treatment of a German shepherd on the set of the film “A Dog’s Purpose.” Animal Justic...