Category Archives: Canada
Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...
Dec 12, 2016
Parliamentary budget office digging into Super Hornet fighter jet costs
OTTAWA - Six years after ripping into the Conservative government’s cost estimates for F-35 stealth fighters, Parliament’s budgetary watchdog says it is digging into the “interimR...
Dec 12, 2016
Feds ease rules on supervised drug injection sites, mail inspections at border
OTTAWA - The federal government is adopting a public-health approach to its drug control strategy, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday as she unveiled proposed new measures that would open the d...
Dec 12, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 12
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 12 --- NEW STUDY SAYS DAYCARE COSTS FAR OUTPACING INFLATION The cost of child care fees in some of Canada’s major cities has skyrocketed over the past t...
Dec 12, 2016
Pre-winter storms move eastward across the country
TORONTO - The official start of winter may still be a week and half away, but The Great White North is already living up to its namesake. Snow began falling in southern Ontario Sunday night and contin...
Dec 12, 2016
Son asks convicted killer: 'Travis Vader, where are the bodies of my parents?'
EDMONTON - Married for 57 years, they were kindred spirits and called each other darling. Lyle McCann, 78, was known for his patience, a retired long-haul trucker who liked to play cribbage and watch ...
Dec 12, 2016
Girl who was subject of Amber Alert found safe in Hamilton, mother charged
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Police say a nine-year-old Ontario girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and her mother has been arrested. Niagara regional police say they found Layla S...
Dec 12, 2016
A breakdown of the cost of child care in some of Canada's biggest cities
OTTAWA - How much do you pay in child care fees? Below is a breakdown by age group of monthly median child care fees across all spaces - regulated or unregulated, in a centre or a home-based daycare -...
Dec 11, 2016
Federal Liberals have more work to do on child care, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government wants to ensure Canadians can raise their families in the way that they want, but acknowledged that different provincial perspectives make it...
Dec 11, 2016
Chris Alexander speaks at 2nd anti-carbon tax rally following earlier controversy
CALGARY - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Chris Alexander returned to Alberta to speak at an anti-carbon tax rally, a week after becoming embroiled in controversy over a “lock her up&#...
Dec 11, 2016