Category Archives: Canada
Renovations to be revealed at Saskatchewan school where shooting took place
LA LOCHE, Sask. - The mayor of a northern Saskatchewan community says there are mixed feelings as renovations to the high school are revealed three years after a deadly shooting. Four people died and ...
Jan 17, 2019
McGill science group takes aim at pharmacies for selling 'quack' flu remedy
MONTREAL - A McGill University science communication group is taking aim at a commonly available homeopathic flu remedy and questioning why pharmacies continue to sell what it calls “quack remed...
Jan 17, 2019
Cape Breton's Eskasoni First Nation in mental health crisis: chief
ESKASONI, N.S. - Nova Scotia’s largest Mi’kmaq community is in the throes of a mental health crisis, with multiple suicides in recent weeks, the chief of the Eskasoni First Nation says. Le...
Jan 17, 2019
Ex-Liberal candidate in Burnaby, B.C., says volunteer wrote controversial post
VANCOUVER - A former Liberal byelection candidate says her political career is “probably” over after an online post singled out NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s ethnicity, but she’s ...
Jan 17, 2019
Legault lays out Quebec demands for federal leaders facing fall election
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec Premier Francois Legault laid out a shopping list of demands Thursday that he expects party leaders to address as they woo voters in his province during the coming federal el...
Jan 17, 2019
Ontario's Tories eliminate free tuition for low-income students
TORONTO - Ontario has eliminated free tuition for low-income students as it attempts to trim a multibillion-dollar deficit, a move that - despite an accompanying tuition fee cut - is being slammed as ...
Jan 17, 2019
Barack Obama, former U.S. president, to speak in Vancouver in early March
VANCOUVER - Former United States president Barack Obama is coming to Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at ...
Jan 17, 2019
Hundreds of people lost millions in GTA taxi fraud scam, police say
TORONTO - An ongoing fraud and identity theft operation targeting taxi riders in the Greater Toronto Area has already cost hundreds of people millions of dollars, city police said Thursday as they ann...
Jan 17, 2019
Supreme Court rejects Calgary man's appeal in neighbour's fatal stabbing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a man who argued he was fending off an attempted sexual assault when he stabbed his new neighbour 37 times. Nicholas Rasberry of Calgary was sen...
Jan 17, 2019
British sailor's gang rape case adjourned, verdict expected Friday
HALIFAX - The high-profile case of a British sailor accused in an alleged gang rape at a Halifax-area military base has been adjourned until Friday. Justice Patrick Duncan was scheduled to deliver his...
Jan 17, 2019
