Category Archives: Canada
System failed five children discovered in horrific neglect case: N.B. report
FREDERICTON - A report on a horrific child-neglect case has laid bare the filth, squalor and mistreatment suffered by five young children - and how New Brunswick authorities repeatedly failed to meet ...
Jan 28, 2019
School boards push back as government seeks data on religious symbols
MONTREAL - A Quebec government initiative to determine how many teachers wear religious symbols also extended to include police officers, prosecutors and the judiciary, the minister responsible said M...
Jan 28, 2019
'Significant development' expected in Bruce McArthur's case: police
TORONTO - A “significant development” is expected in the case of an alleged serial killer accused of preying on men who disappeared from Toronto’s gay village, police said Monday. Br...
Jan 28, 2019
Small Labrador town grieving after snowmobiler killed in avalanche
NAIN, N.L. - A narrow Labrador pass well-known for avalanches claimed its latest victim on the weekend, a young snowmobiler whose death has left the largely Inuit town of Nain grieving. “We̵...
Jan 28, 2019
Some provinces creating challenges for infrastructure projects: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Unco-operative provincial governments have been making the effort to get more infrastructure dollars into Canada’s cities a challenge, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday. Trudeau...
Jan 28, 2019
Kingston youth facing terror charges held until at least next week
KINGSTON, Ont. - A youth facing terrorism charges in Kingston, Ont., will be back in court next week, after his lawyer has had more time to study his case. The RCMP charged the youth last week, saying...
Jan 28, 2019
On land acknowledgments, some Indigenous advocates are ambivalent
Canada’s growing embrace of Indigenous land acknowledgments appears to have left some First Nations advocates ambivalent about whether they are a form of reconciliation - or institutional hypocr...
Jan 28, 2019
No more coal investments for Export Development Canada, new policy says
OTTAWA - Canada’s export-development bank is getting entirely out of the coal game but will continue to fund the oil-and-gas sector as the world transitions towards cleaner sources of energy. Ex...
Jan 28, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 28
Five stories in the news for Monday, Jan. 28 --- MPS ON ELECTION FOOTING AS PARLIAMENT RESUMES Federal politicians will be on election footing as they resume parliamentary business today. They’l...
Jan 28, 2019
'Why didn't you stop?' Humboldt Bronco families hear details of deadly crash
MELFORT, Sask. - Grieving families sobbed Monday as they heard how a semi-truck driver barrelled through an oversized stop sign with a flashing red light and failed to avoid a high-speed crash with a ...
Jan 28, 2019
