Category Archives: Canada
In the news today, Jan. 30
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 30 --- HUMBOLDT BRONCOS FAMILIES WANT MORE ANSWERS The driver of the semi-trailer that crashed into a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos was described at hi...
Jan 30, 2019
Last victim statements delivered at sentencing for trucker in Broncos crash
MELFORT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan court heard Wednesday from the parents of an athletic therapist and a radio announcer killed in the Humboldt Broncos crash, along with a player who was misidentified as...
Jan 30, 2019
NDP byelection victory means B.C. Liberal renewal: Leader Andrew Wilkinson
NANAIMO, B.C. - Opposition Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson says their candidate’s defeat in the Nanaimo byelection has the party shifting into a period of renewal. Wilkinson says every party nee...
Jan 30, 2019
Woman or girl slain every 2.5 days in Cda in 2018, inaugural report finds
A woman or girl was killed every 2.5 days on average in Canada last year, according to an inaugural report on femicide that argues the issue must be better understood in order to reduce the number of ...
Jan 29, 2019
Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort
VANCOUVER - It’s going to take two large floating cranes to try to lift another crane that collapsed over a container vessel at the Port of Vancouver early Monday. Louanne Wong, director of comm...
Jan 29, 2019
Quebec mother accused of killing daughters says they were her only source of joy
LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec woman on trial for murder in the deaths of her two young daughters testified Tuesday that her children were the sole source of joy in her life. Adele Sorella took the stand in h...
Jan 29, 2019
Judge orders U.K. man who was unruly on flight to pay WestJet for fuel costs
CALGARY - A United Kingdom man who was removed from a WestJet flight after becoming disruptive has been ordered to reimburse the airline for the fuel used to bring him back to Calgary. On Jan. 4, Davi...
Jan 29, 2019
A timeline of events in the case of Meng Wanzhou
VANCOUVER - A timeline of the Meng Wanzhou case, and rising tension between Canada and China. 2018 Aug. 22: A New York court issues a warrant for the arrest of Huawei Technologies chief financial offi...
Jan 29, 2019
Quebec premier says information on religious symbols needed to counter opponents
GATINEAU, Ont. - Quebec Premier Francois Legault says his government wants to collect information on public servants wearing religious symbols to counter opponents who maintain proposed secularism leg...
Jan 29, 2019
Burst pipe in Parliament's West Block floods Trudeau out of meeting
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament are used to raising a political stink as part of their job. But there was an odour of a different kind Tuesday coming out of the newly renovated West Block building that...
Jan 29, 2019
