Category Archives: Canada
Armed forces looking into deaths of four military college students or graduates
TORONTO - Canada’s armed forces says it’s looking into a recent spate of deaths involving students or recent graduates from the Royal Military College. Four men have died since April, prom...
Aug 30, 2016
Parole Board extends day parole for Saad Gaya, member of Toronto 18
TORONTO - A man who pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto has had his day parole extended as the Parole Board of Canada found he has made a “strong beginning”...
Aug 30, 2016

National Energy Board suspends hearings into Energy East
MONTREAL - All future National Energy Board hearings into TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project will be suspended until the board rules on motions demanding two of three panel members resig...
Aug 30, 2016
Ottawa watching leave for domestic violence victims in Manitoba, Ontario
OTTAWA - Mary Daoust has seen it all too often: women who stay in a dangerous relationship for fear of being unable to pay the bills or of getting fired amid the ensuing personal tumult. “They s...
Aug 30, 2016

National Energy Board suspends hearings into Energy East
MONTREAL - All future National Energy Board hearings into the Energy East pipeline project will be suspended until the board rules on motions demanding two panel members resign, the federal agency ann...
Aug 30, 2016

Family of Canadian in Iranian jail say her condition is rapidly declining
MONTREAL - Relatives of a Montreal-based university professor being held in an Iranian jail fear for her life as her condition has deteriorated to the point she can hardly walk or talk. Homa Hoodfar, ...
Aug 30, 2016
Alberta to redouble messaging efforts after Quebec protest on Energy East line
EDMONTON - Alberta’s energy minister says the violent disruptions at the Energy East pipeline hearings in Quebec are disconcerting and are hindering the debate. But Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Albert...
Aug 30, 2016
Canada Post, union reach tentative deal; averts possible job action this week
OTTAWA - Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of job action this week at the postal service. The tentative agreements must still be ratified by ...
Aug 30, 2016
Impossible to tell from remains in storage locker how babies died: pathologist
WINNIPEG - Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist says there’s no way to determine the cause of death for six infants whose remains were found in a storage locker, but the babies were certai...
Aug 30, 2016
'Lot of questions:' Free DNA tests offered after Manitoba men switched at birth
NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his brain try...
Aug 30, 2016