Category Archives: Canada
Cheesed off: Food Guide makeover worries farmers as government prepares release
OTTAWA - An overhaul of the Canada Food Guide is set to be released soon, a highly anticipated makeover that will do away with the rainbow visual many Canadians associate with the dietary guide common...
Jan 04, 2019
Immigration minister confident asylum claim backlog will be resolved
CALGARY - Canada’s immigration minister says he is confident a growing backlog of asylum claims will be addressed as the refugee system undergoes some changes. Just over 64,000 refugee claims - ...
Jan 04, 2019
Police set up man who falsely confessed to killing B.C. girl in 1978: lawyer
VANCOUVER - Undercover police manipulated a man into falsely confessing he killed a 12-year-old girl in British Columbia over 40 years ago and the Crown has failed to prove its case beyond a reasonabl...
Jan 04, 2019
Poor weather forces crew to stop fighting fire aboard ship headed for Halifax
HALIFAX - A firefighting tugboat was dispatched late Friday to help extinguish a fire burning aboard a large container ship about 1,200 kilometres off Canada’s east coast. The international ship...
Jan 04, 2019
B.C. fuel up 4 cents, more hikes due as 'bumpy' year looms at pumps: expert
VANCOUVER - Extreme volatility in oil markets has resulted in a price jump for gasoline of four cents a litre in Metro Vancouver and an analyst predicts a further hike could arrive within days. Dan Mc...
Jan 04, 2019
Extreme avalanche risk in Alberta, B.C. leads to warnings from Parks Canada
BANFF, Alta. - Parks Canada is urging backcountry users to stay out of avalanche terrain this weekend after a winter storm led to an extreme danger rating in Banff, Yoho, Kootenay and Jasper national ...
Jan 04, 2019
'Obviously inappropriate:' Insurer says ASIMIL8 plate shouldn't have been issued
WINNIPEG - Documents from a legal challenge by a “Star Trek” fan who had his personalized ASIMIL8 licence plate revoked show a Manitoba Public Insurance senior executive was shocked the pl...
Jan 04, 2019
Mediation scheduled in effort to resolve dispute over new Senators arena
OTTAWA - The three parties involved in a dispute over a plan to build a community featuring a new downtown arena for the Ottawa Senators will go to mediation to try to resolve their differences. While...
Jan 04, 2019
Hateful letter shocks Indigenous family in Edmonton-area community
LEDUC, Alta. - An Indigenous family says they are shocked by a hateful letter telling them to move away - the second such letter in the Edmonton area in recent months. Jimmy Assiniboine, who is 13, to...
Jan 04, 2019
Push carefully but do no harm to Canadians imprisoned in China: senator
OTTAWA - The Liberal senator leading the Canadian parliamentary delegation travelling to China says his group will tread carefully in calling for the release of the two Canadians detained there. Sen. ...
Jan 04, 2019
