Category Archives: Canada
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

Military says progress made on sexual misconduct, but admits long way to go
OTTAWA - The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admit that...
Aug 30, 2016
Oilfield services group pitching rejigged well cleanup proposal to Ottawa
CALGARY - The head of an oilfield services lobby group says if Ottawa won’t give the industry money to clean up dormant oilwells, a loan would work just as well. Mark Salkeld, CEO of the Petrole...
Aug 30, 2016

All 17 Tragically Hip albums land on Billboard's Canadian albums chart
TORONTO - Canada’s insatiable appetite for the Tragically Hip sent the rock band’s entire discography back onto the Billboard charts last week. All 17 Hip albums, ranging from their 1987 d...
Aug 30, 2016
Manitoba all in for inquiry into murdered, missing indigenous women and girls
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is affirming its participation in a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The province says in a release that an order in council ha...
Aug 30, 2016
Northern Saskatchewan mine worker recovering in hospital after wolf attack
SASKATOON - A 26-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in northern Saskatchewan by a lone wolf. The man, a shift worker at Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine, was walking be...
Aug 30, 2016
Cape Breton store offers up land to people who work for business for five years
WHYCOCOMAGH, N.S. - They’re offering free land and a job to anyone interested in working at the family roadside general store - and two Cape Breton businesswomen say they’ve been swamped w...
Aug 30, 2016
Victims in crossbow attack part of accused killer's family: police
TORONTO - The three people killed in a bloody crossbow attack at a home in Toronto’s east end last week were the mother and two brothers of the accused, police said Tuesday after an Ontario cour...
Aug 30, 2016
Sperm donor at centre of Canadian lawsuits admits to false info: police
An American who fathered more than 30 children through sperm donations, including at least three in Canada, has admitted he lied to a sperm bank about his background, police said. Police in Georgia sa...
Aug 30, 2016