Category Archives: Canada
Jury at trial of alleged Quebec election shooter to return Wednesday
MONTREAL - Jurors at the trial of accused Quebec election killer Richard Henry Bain will return for a fifth day of deliberations Wednesday. They ended their fourth day of discussions at the Montreal c...
Aug 16, 2016
Papers discuss fracking impact on B.C. dams, province defends approach
VANCOUVER - Officials at British Columbia’s public power utility raised concerns as early as 2009 that earthquakes caused by a controversial gas-extraction method used in the mining industry may...
Aug 16, 2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces $119 M in funding for Nova Scotia
BRIDGETOWN, N.S. - On his first tour through Atlantic Canada since the emphatic election win last fall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took steps to shore up goodwill, announcing millions in infrastruc...
Aug 16, 2016
Arbitrator sides with Canada Post in contract negotiation with rural postmasters
TORONTO - An arbitrator has accepted Canada Post’s proposal for a new collective agreement with its postmasters and assistants in rural offices across the country. Key changes under the agreemen...
Aug 16, 2016
Successful end to Vancouver Island search for missing three-year-old boy
COMOX, B.C. - Rescuers say a three-year-old boy who wandered away from his Vancouver Island home Sunday evening has been found safe - and covered in berry juice. Const. Rob Gardner with the Comox Vall...
Aug 16, 2016

Sweden digs in on proposal to ban lobsters from Europe
PORTLAND, Maine - Sweden is digging in on a proposal to ban imports of live lobsters into the European Union after a rebuke from American scientists, and the issue could go all the way to the World Tr...
Aug 16, 2016

Tragically Hip fans cross their fingers for their favourites at Saturday's big show
TORONTO - You can’t always get what you want - but fans of the Tragically Hip looking forward to Saturday’s big show in Kingston, Ont., certainly have a list of what they’d like to h...
Aug 16, 2016

Barber crashes out of pole vault event as Canada's medal streak ends at nine days
RIO DE JANEIRO - As the pole vault bar fell 5.65 metres to the ground, Shawn Barber’s Olympic dreams came crashing down with it. It was a bitter but fitting end to Day 10 of the Rio Olympics for...
Aug 16, 2016
Federal government apologizes for forced relocation of Sayisi Dene in Manitoba
TADOULE LAKE, Man. - The federal government has formally apologized and provided compensation for the forced relocation of a First Nations community in northern Manitoba 60 years ago. Indigenous and N...
Aug 16, 2016

Canada must work to become leader in understanding radicalization: Goodale
MONTREAL - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada must strive to become a global leader in understanding and countering radicalization. He says the death last week of a man in Strathroy, Ont...
Aug 16, 2016