Category Archives: Canada
Murder trial hears of lover's panicked attempts to reach Richard Oland
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The woman Richard Oland was having an extramarital affair with has described the anger and then the panic she felt as she tried in vain to reach her multimillionaire lover in the ho...
Jan 29, 2019
'Kraken', 'The Boss' among Defence Dept codenames for Mark Norman, court hears
OTTAWA - The Boss. MN3. C34. The Kraken. Those are some of the “codenames” that officials at the Department of National Defence used to refer to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in internal commun...
Jan 29, 2019
Government report lists multiple trucking violations by Humboldt semi driver
MELFORT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan government report says the driver of a semi-truck should not have been on the road the day he flew through a stop sign and caused a crash involving the Humboldt Broncos...
Jan 29, 2019
Democrats, Republicans alike won't support USMCA with tariffs in place: Brady
WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill won’t back the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement until President Donald Trump ends America’s punitive restrictions on steel and alum...
Jan 29, 2019
Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder
TORONTO - A serial killer who preyed on men from Toronto’s gay village for years sexually assaulted many of his victims and kept some of their belongings after disposing of their bodies, prosecu...
Jan 29, 2019
Timeline in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur
TORONTO - A timeline of key events in the case of Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur based on information released by police: September 2010 _ Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappears from Toronto’...
Jan 29, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 29
Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Jan. 29 --- CASE OF HUAWEI EXEC BACK IN VANCOUVER COURT The case of a senior executive of Chinese tech juggernaut Huawei Technologies is scheduled to return to c...
Jan 29, 2019
Liberals set to decide on future of Social Security Tribunal: sources
OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers will soon decide whether and how to reform the oft-maligned tribunal Canadians use to appeal federal benefits rulings, potentially undoing changes made six years ago...
Jan 29, 2019
Canada has one month to decide whether to hold an extradition hearing for Meng
VANCOUVER - The clock is ticking for Canada to decide whether to proceed with a high-profile extradition case involving a senior executive of Huawei Technologies, which has touched off furor in diplom...
Jan 29, 2019
Feds to offer $114M in new money to provinces, cities for asylum seeker housing
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals plan to spend an extra $114.7 million to help pay for temporary housing for asylum seekers - a sum Ontario’s government criticized as being hundreds of millions sho...
Jan 29, 2019
