Category Archives: Canada
Judges in Alberta custody case ordered boy not to wear girls clothes in public
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A sexual minorities expert says judges need to be better educated about gender identity after two Alberta family court judges ruled that a child born a boy couldn’t wear gi...
Oct 24, 2016

Dog trapped in well for almost a month showing strong will to live: vet school
SASKATOON - A chocolate Labrador retriever trapped in a well for almost a month is responding to special care from animal medical clinicians and a nutritionist. Seven-year-old Bruno is listed as stabl...
Oct 24, 2016
Quebec carbon market not changing behaviours so far but experts are hopeful
OTTAWA - As politicians across the country worry about the consequences of a national carbon tax on family incomes, many experts say the much-touted carbon market in Quebec has so far had little effec...
Oct 24, 2016

Police issue 99 trespass citations during pipeline protest on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s conflicting climate and pipeline policies were thrown into sharp relief Monday as more than 200 protesters marched on Parliament Hill demanding Prime Minister J...
Oct 24, 2016

Family of murdered B.C. girl reacts to news of killer's prison pregnancy
VICTORIA - Family members of a teenage girl who was viciously beaten and drowned on Vancouver Island nearly two decades ago say they wish their relative’s killer well after a news report that sh...
Oct 24, 2016
Tory leadership hopeful Blaney aims to stem 'erosion' of Canadian values
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Steven Blaney says he would introduce a bill calling for Canadians to have to show their face when they vote or take the oath of citizenship. In his first po...
Oct 24, 2016

Feathered dinosaurs may have 'flocked' together like modern birds: study
EDMONTON - An ancient bone bed in a remote Mongolian desert presents tantalizing clues that dinosaurs of a feather may have flocked together for the same reasons modern birds do. “We’re st...
Oct 24, 2016
RCMP shut key Labrador road as protest grows over Muskrat Falls megaproject
MUSKRAT FALLS, N.L. - Protesters who broke into the sprawling Muskrat Falls construction site are risking serious injury, the CEO of the Crown corporation in charge of the megaproject said Monday as R...
Oct 24, 2016
Campaign targets sport specialization: 'Parents get caught up in peer pressure'
HALIFAX - Parents are being warned about the dangers of early specialization in sport, in a new campaign that says overfocusing on one-sport skills may burn out younger athletes. Carolyn Townsend, com...
Oct 24, 2016
Expat voting ban legit, Liberal government argues despite promised change
TORONTO - Allowing long-term Canadian expats to vote in federal elections is not a Constitutional requirement but a policy decision that Parliament has the right to make, the government plans to tell ...
Oct 24, 2016