Category Archives: Canada
Campaign aims to educate Canada's youth sooner about changing technology
OTTAWA - With potentially thousands of high-paying jobs going unfilled in Canada, Prime Minister Just Trudeau lent his voice Monday to a campaign aimed at encouraging young people to study computer sc...
Dec 05, 2016
No new trial date yet for Dennis Oland in murder of his multimillionaire father
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland will have to wait until at least next month to learn if a date will be set for a new trial in his father’s 2011 murder. Oland was convicted of second-degree murde...
Dec 05, 2016
Ottawa says it's working to win release of former soldier arrested in Iraq
A former Canadian soldier being held in Iraq is in good health and Canadian Embassy officials are working to win his release, federal cabinet minister Judy Foote confirmed Monday. Foote, the senior mi...
Dec 05, 2016
Nova Scotia schools to re-open Tuesday as government reverses itself
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia students will return to their classrooms Tuesday, as the government abruptly backed off plans to impose a contract settlement on teachers. The government had sent parents scrambl...
Dec 05, 2016
Liberal electoral reform survey derided as manipulative, simplistic
OTTAWA - Days after complaining that an all-party committee didn’t recommend a specific alternative to Canada’s voting system, the Trudeau government launched Monday an online interactive ...
Dec 05, 2016
Suspect in fatal Montreal carjacking now linked to second homicide
MONTREAL - A single suspect is connected to the death of a Montreal woman whose car was hijacked and the slaying of a young man in an apartment, police said Monday. Major-crimes investigators say both...
Dec 05, 2016
Eight stories in the news today, Dec. 5
Eight stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 5 --- ENERGY EAST STILL NEEDED, N.B. PREMIER SAYS New Brunswick’s premier says there’s still a strong need for the proposed Energy East pipeline ...
Dec 05, 2016
Copycat terrorists could use drone to attack plane, intelligence report warns
OTTAWA - Publicity about near-misses between drones and passenger aircraft might give terrorists ideas about how to take down a plane, a federal intelligence report warns. The Transport Canada report ...
Dec 05, 2016
Energy East still needed despite approval for western pipelines: N.B. premier
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s premier says there’s still a strong need for the proposed Energy East pipeline despite the federal government’s approval of two pipeline expansions in w...
Dec 05, 2016
'I failed and I admit that:' Mother who treated son holistically testifies
CALGARY - A woman who treated her son with dandelion tea and oil of oregano before he died testified Monday that she didn’t understand how sick he really was and that he was still alive when she...
Dec 05, 2016