Category Archives: Canada
School officials in four Canadian provinces respond differently to bomb threats
HALIFAX - School officials in four Canadian provinces all received similar bomb threats this week, but each responded to the potential danger differently. Universities and schools across Prince Edward...
Sep 26, 2016

Labrador doctor who asked woman if she likes 'big ones or small ones' suspended
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Labrador West physician who asked a woman during a Pap test if she “liked big ones or small ones” has lost his medical licence for six months and must be chapero...
Sep 26, 2016

Montreal city council set to weigh merits of proposed pit bull bylaw
MONTREAL - The fight over Montreal’s contentious pit bull legislation comes to a head this week as city lawmakers are set to weigh the merits of the bylaw amid a last-ditch counter-offensive by ...
Sep 26, 2016
A look at where the royals are going Tuesday
Here are details for Tuesday of the royal tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: - Prince William and Kate travel to Kelowna in British Columbia’s Okanagan region, where they will mark the c...
Sep 26, 2016

Royals blown off course: William and Kate brave bad weather to visit rainforest
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Prince William and Kate’s tour of British Columbia was knocked off course on Monday as the royal couple braved bad weather to add a unique area of rainforest coastline to a c...
Sep 26, 2016

Round 2 of Canadian auto talks start today between Unifor and Fiat-Chrysler
TORONTO - Fiat-Chrysler goes on the hot seat today as it sits down to negotiate a new contract with its Canadian unionized workforce. The start of talks follows on the heels of workers at General Moto...
Sep 26, 2016
Two reported dead in small plane crash in northern Quebec
RIVIRE MOUCHALAGANE, Que. - A small plane crashed Sunday along the Mouchalagane River in northern Quebec. Quebec air ambulance company Air Medic says two people were killed in the crash and one other ...
Sep 25, 2016
UN monitoring mission eyes Site C dam impact of Wood Buffalo National Park
OTTAWA - A United Nations monitoring mission to a world heritage site in northern Alberta appears likely to focus more attention on the contested Site C hydroelectric project next door in British Colu...
Sep 25, 2016

Trump vs. Clinton debate Monday: Let the psychological games begin
WASHINGTON - To avoid having Stephen Harper’s debate preparations destabilized by some scandal-of-the-day, his entourage once banned smartphones from the room and devised a coded phrase to use i...
Sep 25, 2016

Federal government sends mixed messages on how provinces can price carbon
OTTAWA - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is pointing to differing messages coming from the federal Liberal government over what constitutes a price on carbon. The Trudeau government has promised to...
Sep 25, 2016