Category Archives: Canada
Mounties investigate after five-year-old drowns in bathtub in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., were investigating after a five-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub. Police were called to a home in the Whalley neighbourhood just before 5 p.m. Sunday. They say fi...
Dec 19, 2016
Toronto police testing roadside screening devices for drug-impaired driving
Toronto police have begun a pilot project testing the use of roadside screening devices for drug-impaired driving. The project - which continues through to next spring - will test how well officers ar...
Dec 19, 2016
University to reinstate women's hockey after lengthy human rights battle
FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is reinstating women’s varsity hockey following a 10-year absence and a lengthy battle over human rights. “I’m very pleased and very pro...
Dec 19, 2016
Newfoundland mourns retired teacher killed in Jordan: 'She was a happy person'
BURGEO, N.L. - Linda Vatcher made the trip home to Newfoundland’s south coast every year, often offering up a hug and a smile to many people she ran into. “She was just an infectious perso...
Dec 19, 2016
Provinces, territories refuse federal government's offer on health care funding
OTTAWA - The federal government pulled billions of dollars off the negotiating table Monday after failing to reach a long-term health-care funding agreement with frustrated provincial and territorial ...
Dec 19, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 19
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 19 --- FEDS AND PROVINCES DICKER OVER HEALTH CARE FUNDING Canada’s finance and health ministers meet today to try to reach an agreement on federal fundi...
Dec 19, 2016
Provinces bristle at what they call feds' take it or leave it health care offer
OTTAWA - The federal government is to sit down Monday with the provinces for some tough negotiations on the future of health-care funding in Canada. Shortly before a Sunday dinner meeting with their f...
Dec 19, 2016
A look at the 10 police-involved shootings in Calgary in 2016
Calgary police have had more officer-involved shootings than any other city in Canada in 2016. Calgary police Chief Roger Chaffin believes there is something wrong and has called for an independent pr...
Dec 19, 2016
Ship noise on government's radar amid dispute over pipeline's impact on whales
OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traffic off Vancouv...
Dec 19, 2016
Military probe finds 'unacceptable language' in cadet dress-code pamphlets
A Canadian Forces probe of cadet dress-code pamphlets has uncovered eight containing “unacceptable language,” months after controversy over a similar recruitment leaflet that “shamed...
Dec 19, 2016