Category Archives: Canada
Train derailed in northern Ontario after cracked rail gave way: TSB
GATINEAU, Que. - The Transportation Safety Board says a freight train derailment in northern Ontario was caused by the complete failure of a previously cracked rail. The incident took place on Jan. 13...
Aug 31, 2016
Conservatives: dire economic data undermine Liberal promises of growth
OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives and the NDP seized on Wednesday’s news of grim second-quarter economic growth as evidence that the Liberal government’s election promises of jobs and ...
Aug 31, 2016
'Peace treaty' at Canada Post only delays the inevitable, says business group
OTTAWA - Canada Post and its employees have merely reached a “peace treaty” ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, a business lobby group warned Wednesday, predicting little but long-t...
Aug 31, 2016
P.K. Subban admits disappointment at not being on Canadian team at World Cup
MONTREAL - Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban admits he’s disappointed at not making the Canadian team for the World Cup of Hockey, but says he had no control over the decision to omit h...
Aug 31, 2016
Minister promises 'relatively timely' action on homeless veterans strategy
OTTAWA - The veterans affairs minister says the government intends to implement a number of recommendations to combat homelessness among veterans and to do so in what he calls a relatively timely fash...
Aug 31, 2016
RCMP reviewing report on investigation into police shooting of N.L. man
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador says it is reviewing a report from the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team into the shooting death of Don Dunphy. In a statement Wedne...
Aug 31, 2016
Olympian Jen Kish blasts Alberta Opposition leader for beating premier joke
EDMONTON - One of Canada’s Olympic medallists is calling out Alberta’s Opposition leader for a comment about physically assaulting Premier Rachel Notley. “It drives me nuts,” J...
Aug 31, 2016
Industrial milk price hike likely to be passed down to consumers at restaurants
TORONTO - Restaurateurs are crying foul over a second industrial milk price increase this year set to take effect Thursday, which they say will likely lead to higher food prices. In July, the Canadian...
Aug 31, 2016
Newfoundland to provide naloxone kits to counter effects of opioid overdoses
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it will spend $180,000 on a province-wide program to counter the effects of opioid overdoses. Provincial Health Minister John Hag...
Aug 31, 2016
Alberta man gets life in prison for double shooting in U.S.
KALISPELL, Mont. - A Canadian man convicted of shooting his ex-girlfriend and a man during what U.S. prosecutors say was a jealous rage has been sentenced to life in prison in Montana. The Flathead Be...
Aug 31, 2016