Category Archives: Canada
Yellow or blue? Thermal imaging project in Vancouver to identify home heat loss
Vancouver has launched a project to determine if thermal imaging of homes could help residents identify heat loss and save on energy costs. The city says thermal images show the temperature over the s...
Jan 05, 2017
Canada could be heading towards decades of deficits, federal analysis warns
OTTAWA - Federal numbers released quietly by the Trudeau government late last month are painting a bleak picture of Canada’s financial future - one filled with decades of deficits. The report, p...
Jan 05, 2017
20 venomous snakes imported from Asia seized from Toronto home, officials say
TORONTO - Officials say 20 prohibited venomous snakes have been seized from a north Toronto home. Toronto Municipal Licensing and Standards says it removed 20 live and 18 dead snakes from a home on Tu...
Jan 05, 2017
Veterans Affairs slow to approve assistance for ill, injured ex-soldiers
OTTAWA - Canada’s Veterans Affairs Department has been struggling to process requests for assistance from ill and injured ex-soldiers in a timely manner, with many having to wait more than four ...
Jan 05, 2017
Couple entrapped by police in terror plot don't need peace bond: defence
VANCOUVER - Crown lawyers in British Columbia are trying to use a peace bond hearing as a second chance to prosecute a man freed after a judge ruled police had manipulated him into carrying out a terr...
Jan 05, 2017
Nova Scotia fish kill 'subsiding,' but cause remains unclear: officials
HALIFAX - Officials have ruled out human activity as the cause of Nova Scotia’s dramatic fish kill, but say we may never know exactly why tens of thousands of dead herring washed ashore. Fisheri...
Jan 05, 2017
Fleeing alleged drug trafficker tracked by GPS monitor on ankle, police say
KINGSTON, Ont. - An accused drug trafficker apparently forgot about the GPS tracking device on his ankle when he allegedly fled police while carrying a firearm and drugs. Police in Kingston, Ont., say...
Jan 05, 2017
Alberta says deal reached to settle dispute with Christian school association
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Alberta’s largest home-schooling agency is back in business but on a tight financial leash following a messy court dispute involving allegations of misspending of public ...
Jan 05, 2017
Winnipeg police investigating hate crime after anti-Semitic incident
Winnipeg police are investigating after a couple say they came home New Year’s Eve to find a large rock painted with an anti-Semitic message near their front steps. B’nai Brith says the ho...
Jan 05, 2017
Nine-year term urged for U.S. man who plotted sex with 13-year-old Canadian
TORONTO - American prosecutors are pushing for a nine-year prison term and indefinite probation for a man who flew to Canada to have sex with a 13-year-old girl who had sent him nude videos. In pushin...
Jan 05, 2017