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Elections Canada scraps social media 'influencers' to encourage youth vote
OTTAWA - Elections Canada has scrapped plans to use social-media "influencers" to persuade young Canadians to register to vote in this fall's federal election. Chief electoral officer Stephane Perraul...
Jun 22, 2019
Tampa Bay Rays exploring splitting home games with Montreal
Starved for fans despite success on the field, the Tampa Bay Rays have been given the go-ahead by Major League Baseball to look into playing a split season in Montreal. However, the mayor of St. Peter...
Jun 22, 2019
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...
Jun 22, 2019
Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax
EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax. At a news conferen...
Jun 22, 2019
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...
Jun 22, 2019
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...
Jun 22, 2019
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...
Jun 22, 2019
Deals on paid time off for domestic violence 'beginning of a wave,' says expert
OTTAWA - An academic expert on violence against women and children says several new deals reached between the federal government and one of its biggest civil service unions that allows paid time off f...
Jun 22, 2019 Image Credit: © Anton Skavronskiy | Dreamstime.com
Christine Sinclair scores goal No. 182 but Canada loses 2-1 to Dutch at World Cup
REIMS, France - Canada got a wake-up call at the Women's World Cup on Thursday, paying for a slow start and some defensive lapses with a 2-1 loss to the European champion Netherlands in thei...
Jun 22, 2019
Auger-Aliassime falls to Lopez in semifinals of Queen's Club tournament
LONDON - Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime fell just short of reaching his fourth ATP final of the season, losing in three sets to veteran Feliciano Lopez on Saturday in the semifinals of the Queen'...
Jun 22, 2019
