Category Archives: Canada
Student to use mediation to raise issues with university sexual violence policy
TORONTO - A student who filed a human rights complaint against an Ontario university after she was sexually assaulted by another student says the school’s new guidelines for responding to sexual...
Nov 09, 2016

Parents wrestle with how to explain Trump's win in U.S. election to their kids
TORONTO - The incendiary U.S. election is proving to be a challenging teachable moment for some Canadian parents struggling to explain the surprising results to their curious children. But at least th...
Nov 09, 2016

From the PM to pro-athletes, prominent figures react to Trump victory
From the prime minister to pro-athletes, a number of prominent figures from across Canada are weighing in on Donald Trump’s election as America’s 45th president. Here is what some of them ...
Nov 09, 2016
Youth behind violent sex attacks in Winnipeg morally culpable: Crown
WINNIPEG - A Crown attorney in Winnipeg says a man who was 17 when he committed two horrific sex attacks should be sentenced as an adult. Jennifer Comack told a sentencing hearing the man, who cannot ...
Nov 09, 2016

Trump victory throws basics of Canada's foreign policy into question: experts
OTTAWA - Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election victory could overturn long-held assumptions and positions about Canada’s place in the world - from free trade and defence to the rul...
Nov 09, 2016

How 'vicarious trauma' is passed down from parent to child in military families
TORONTO - When retired soldier Jacqueline Buckley sees her four-year-old grandson get angry, she can’t help but think of her own capacity to explode with rage. She also thinks of the fury that c...
Nov 09, 2016
Trudeau set to lose environmental ally with Trump in White House
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to face an incoming American president who could kill continental climate-change plans, and threaten the Liberals’ domestic agenda that binds enviro...
Nov 09, 2016
N.B. captain charged with sexual assault of fellow Armed Forces member
GAGETOWN, N.B. - A captain at New Brunswick’s Gagetown military base has been charged with sexual assault. The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service says the charge relates to an allege...
Nov 09, 2016

Political 'refugees' from Trump presidency possible if rhetoric real: observers
HALIFAX - A Donald Trump presidency could prompt a flow of politically motivated American emigrants akin to the Vietnam war era, though passionate first impulses to leave may cool as the new leader...
Nov 09, 2016
What Donald Trump's presidential victory could mean for Canada's economy
TORONTO - A Donald Trump administration, combined with a Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives, could have reverberations that will be felt by the Canadian economy for years. Here&...
Nov 09, 2016