Category Archives: Canada
Ontario ticket takes Saturday night's $20 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - The $20.5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was won by a single ticket purchased in Ontario. The draw’s $1 million guaranteed prize also went to an Ontario ticke...
Oct 08, 2016
Three killed in pickup truck crash in northern Ont.
ATIKOKAN, Ont. - Three people have been killed and a fourth injured in a single vehicle crash in northern Ontario. Investigators with the OPP’s Atikokan detachment were called to the scene aroun...
Oct 08, 2016

World is watching: commissioner of missing, murdered indigenous women inquiry
OTTAWA - The chief commissioner for the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women knows the world is watching her team - and she wants to assure Canadians much is happening behind th...
Oct 08, 2016

In historic event, rebellion erupts against Trump one month before election
WASHINGTON - An internal rebellion has erupted against Donald Trump, knocking out support from longstanding pillars of the Republican party and threatening to turn his presidential campaign into ruins...
Oct 08, 2016
Sluggish exports continue to confound, says Bank of Canada governor
WASHINGTON - The perplexingly persistent sluggishness of exports has slowed Canada’s adjustment to low oil prices, the country’s central banker said Saturday. The problem continues to conf...
Oct 08, 2016
Philippe Couillard attacks newly-elected PQ leader's "closed nationalism"
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Jean-Francois Lisee’s election as Parti Quebecois leader represents a victory for “the nationalism of exclusion,” Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Saturday...
Oct 08, 2016
Contest winners seek technological solutions to help save the St. Lawrence River
MONTREAL - Can artificial intelligence be used to help predict water quality? Could an app for fishermen help signal the presence of invasive species? Technology, and how it can help save one of North...
Oct 08, 2016
NB community college to offer marijuana cultivation program with industry help
BATHURST, N.B. - A community college in New Brunswick is offering a course in horticulture tailored to equip students with the skills to work in a growing industry - marijuana cultivation. A school of...
Oct 08, 2016
Cameras and legal measures can help curb fan violence, British prof says
TORONTO - Banning or limiting alcohol sales isn’t likely to reduce rowdy fan behaviour at large sporting events, a British professor who has researched hooliganism said Friday in the wake of a b...
Oct 08, 2016
Homes, women workers and mental health: three ways politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - Is it a price or is it a tax? When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inadvertently used the Conservatives’ favoured word “tax” to describe this week’s new measures on gree...
Oct 08, 2016