Category Archives: Canada

Success of soccer star Alphonso Davies shines spotlight on Free Footie program
EDMONTON - Hundreds of boys and girls run into the field house at a recreation centre where 10 small soccer pitches are set up for an end-of-season tournament. They drop their backpacks, take off thei...
Kayla Derkach Jan 01, 2019
Canadian man, 51, arrested at airport in Amsterdam for alleged bomb threat
AMSTERDAM - Police in Amsterdam are interrogating a 51-year-old Canadian man who was arrested after allegedly claiming he had a bomb at at the city’s Schiphol Airport. Border patrol agency spoke...
Kayla Derkach Jan 01, 2019
Canadian man, 51, arrested at airport in Amsterdam for alleged bomb threat
AMSTERDAM - A 51-year-old Canadian man has been arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after authorities say he claimed he had a bomb. Joanna Helmonds, a spokeswoman for the border police agen...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018
Man found lodged in clothing donation bin in West Vancouver is dead
VANCOUVER - West Vancouver police and the BC Coroners Service are investigating the death of a man who was found lodged in a clothing donation bin. Police say an off-duty physician walking near Ambles...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018

Kevin Vickers says he's considering a run for New Brunswick Liberal leadership
TROUT BROOK, N.B. - Kevin Vickers, who became Canada’s ambassador to Ireland after being hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, is considering a move into politi...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018
Little to no proof police carding has effect on crime or arrests: Ontario report
TORONTO - Police street checks widely known as carding have little to no value as a law enforcement tool and should be significantly limited across Ontario, a judge tasked with reviewing the practice ...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018
Woman at centre of brain death court fight dies, family says
TORONTO - A family that went to court to keep their daughter on life support after she was declared brain dead says the Toronto-area woman’s heart stopped beating on Monday, rendering her dead i...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018
Shuttered Cape Breton call centre to reopen this week, new owner says
SYDNEY, N.S. - The Cape Breton call centre that abruptly laid off hundreds of workers just weeks before Christmas will officially reopen this Wednesday - offering bolstered pay and benefits. Iowa busi...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018

Toronto homicide squad being revamped under new leader after tough year
Toronto’s homicide squad has had a difficult year - the team has had to investigate a record-breaking number of killings in Canada’s most populous city, grapple with a rise in deadly gang ...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018

Liberals look to infrastructure bank to finance rural, remote broadband internet
OTTAWA - The federal infrastructure minister says he is looking to connect private backers with some of the country’s rural and northern communities to pay for badly needed broadband internet co...
Kayla Derkach Dec 31, 2018

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