Category Archives: Canada
CBC should focus on public affairs, not cooking, sports, game shows: Bernier
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier wants the CBC to refocus its mandate with fewer cooking shows, sporting events and Canadian knockoffs of popular U.S. programs. The Quebec MP sa...
Nov 23, 2016
Nova Scotia must prepare for illicit fentanyl onslaught: public health officer
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia must prepare for a potential wave of deaths due to illicit fentanyl, and must as a result be careful in addressing painkiller over-prescription, says the province’s chief p...
Nov 23, 2016
Manitoba Liberals want to have weight discrimination in human rights code
WINNIPEG - Advocates say Manitoba should expand human rights protection to overweight people because they are being passed over for everything from job promotions to surgery. About two dozen people ra...
Nov 23, 2016
Author Steven Galloway apologizes in first statement since UBC firing
VANCOUVER - Author Steven Galloway has issued his first statement since he was suspended a year ago by the University of British Columbia over what it has only described as “serious allegations....
Nov 23, 2016
Accused of shooting First Nations man: Gerald Stanley faces firearms charges
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A suspect in the fatal shooting of a First Nations Saskatchewan man is facing more charges. RCMP say Gerald Stanley has been charged with two counts of unsafe storage of a fi...
Nov 23, 2016
Parents file $12.5M lawsuit alleging police ignored, hid evidence in son's death
TORONTO - An Ottawa couple who has been fighting for 15 years to have their son’s death reinvestigated has filed a $12.5 million lawsuit against Toronto police, alleging detectives ignored, conc...
Nov 23, 2016
"Can't keep living like this"; BC interior water quality problems coming to a boiling point
INTERIOR BC – Water is commonly regarded as British Columbia’s most precious resource, but it’s become nothing short of a source of stress for communities across the interior. Interi...
Nov 23, 2016
Median wait time for patients to get treatment up to 20 weeks, report finds
TORONTO - A new report by the Fraser Institute says Canadians had a median wait time of 20 weeks this year for medical treatment - the longest yet recorded by the independent public-policy think tank....
Nov 23, 2016
Quebec woman told to remove hijab in court appeals ruling on legal clarification
MONTREAL - A Montreal woman who was told to remove her hijab by a judge is appealing a ruling that declined to clarify whether Quebecers have a right to wear religious attire in court, her lawyer said...
Nov 23, 2016
Montreal firefighters battle five-alarm blaze in vacant building near downtown
MONTREAL - Fire raced through an abandoned building in Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood on Wednesday, sending smoke billowing over downtown as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze. No inj...
Nov 23, 2016