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Week in Review: Week of August 29, 2022
Welcome to Week in Review.This week, another death in a rural B.C. community while waiting on emergency care. Tourism activity has shot up in the Shuswap. And, an Ontario hockey team puts in work to h...
Sep 04, 2022
COLLINS: Please spare us the stupidity
MY EYESIGHT MUST be failing me. With all the shootings going on, even if we limit the numbers to Canada and the United States, you would think that there would be a massive outcry for something to be ...
Sep 04, 2022
Jean Charest: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate
OTTAWA - Jean Charest has had a long run in Canadian politics. He was a cabinet minister under Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, a key "No" campaigner in the 1995 Quebec referend...
Sep 04, 2022
Plus ça change: Jean Charest tries to repeat history with Conservative leadership bid
OTTAWA - It's just after 9 a.m. on a Friday morning at Wilfrid's Restaurant in the Chteau Laurier and guests are helping themselves to a breakfast buffet when Jean Charest takes his seat in the corner...
Sep 04, 2022
Families and former patients seek access to federal 'Indian hospital' records
OTTAWA - Georgina Martin says she is still searching for answers about the treatment of her mother. Martin was born at the Coqualeetza Indian Hospital in British Columbia after her mother was confined...
Sep 04, 2022
B.C. scientists hopeful in fight against mites that puncture and kill honeybees
SURREY, B.C. - Chemistry professor Erika Plettner gestures towards beehives surrounded by tall, dry grasses as she explains the multiple pressures facing honeybees worldwide. Pesticides, pathogens and...
Sep 04, 2022
Fifty years after major Montreal art theft, trail has gone cold and nobody's talking
MONTREAL - Fifty years after what has been described as the biggest art heist in Canadian history, the thieves' identity remains a mystery, and nobody is keen to talk about it. From the Montreal polic...
Sep 04, 2022
Quebec election: Once a major force, Parti Québécois risks finishing with one seat
MONTREAL - As Parti Qubcois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon launched his party's election campaign, he described his candidates as a "Cinderella team" that would go further than people expect. It was ...
Sep 04, 2022
B.C. scientists hopeful in fight against mites that puncture and kill honeybees
SURREY, B.C. - Chemistry professor Erika Plettner gestures towards beehives surrounded by tall, dry grasses as she explains the multiple pressures facing honeybees worldwide. Pesticides, pathogens and...
Sep 04, 2022
Survivor of Holocaust, Munich attack heads back to Germany
BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany (AP) - They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games...
Sep 03, 2022
