Category Archives: Canada
Labour minister appoints mediator as Canada Post warns of huge pension problem
OTTAWA - With the clock ticking toward potential job action at Canada Post, lawyer and author William Kaplan was appointed Friday to seek an end to the months-long labour dispute at the Crown agency. ...
Aug 26, 2016

'I want answers so bad:' Manitoba First Nations men angry over birth mix-up
WINNIPEG - For years, people in the tiny northern Manitoba community of Norway House Cree Nation gossiped and whispered about why David Tait Jr. and Leon Swanson didn’t look much like their pare...
Aug 26, 2016
Ottawa runs $1B deficit in first quarter, down from $5B surplus last year
OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $1.0 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year, down from a surplus of $5.0 billion in the same period last year though “broadly consisten...
Aug 26, 2016
Cause of earthquakes that shook a New Brunswick village for months is a mystery
MCADAM, N.B. - The cause of more than 100 earthquakes that shook homes and rattled nerves in a New Brunswick village earlier this year may remain a mystery, says a seismologist. Stephen Halchuk at Ear...
Aug 26, 2016
Chief copes with fallout after firefighters charged with arson in local blazes
SYDNEY, N.S. - Dave Julian says serial arson charges laid against two volunteer firefighters he worked alongside in rural Cape Breton came as a shock - but it turns out the cases aren’t as rare ...
Aug 26, 2016
Elusive snake finally coaxed out of drain pipe under Victoria street
VICTORIA - A reclusive reptile that has been living in a storm drain below the streets of Victoria now has a new home. A tweet posted Thursday night by the City of Victoria shows a city worker holding...
Aug 26, 2016
Radio station go-between as purloined porker returned to Calgary pub
CALGARY - A beloved Fibreglas pig named Henry that was taken by bacon burglars from a Calgary bar is heading home. The 14-kilogram ornament - a fixture at the Unicorn Pub in the city’s southwest...
Aug 26, 2016
The text of Stephen Harper's resignation from his seat in the House of Commons
OTTAWA - The text of Stephen Harper’s remarks following his resignation Friday as member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage: Greetings, fellow Calgarians and fellow Canadians. Today I wish to in...
Aug 26, 2016
Man from Italy dies on Air France flight before it lands in Labrador: police
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - Police say a man from Italy died on board an Air France plane before it landed in Labrador after being diverted there after midnight. RCMP say the flight was headed to F...
Aug 26, 2016

Fake Beard Bandit, 35, charged in triple crossbow killings weeks before wedding
TORONTO - A man once dubbed the Fake Beard Bandit and due to be married in three weeks was charged Friday in a bloody crossbow attack that left three people dead and another person seriously injured. ...
Aug 26, 2016