Category Archives: Canada
List of concerns disability advocates have about Accessible Canada Act
A list of concerns disability advocates have expressed about the federal government’s Accessible Canada Act: - Bill C 81 does not include timelines, which advocates say are essential to ensure t...
Dec 19, 2018
Politicians more than half of Canadian Press newsmakers through the years
The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team has been chosen as the 2018 Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year. Here is a list of past newsmakers as chosen in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country:...
Dec 19, 2018
Paris staging of controversial Lepage play disappoints Indigenous artists.
MONTREAL - Innu writer Maya Cousineau Mollen travelled to Paris from Quebec hoping to find that Robert Lepage had heard the grievances of Indigenous artists about his play “Kanata.” But af...
Dec 19, 2018
New charges laid in police probe into incidents at St. Michael's College School
TORONTO - An investigation into alleged sexual and physical abuse at a prestigious private Toronto school led to the arrest of a seventh student Wednesday as police laid a slew of new charges in the c...
Dec 19, 2018
Coyote attacks on children dampen fun at Alberta city's Christmas festival
AIRDRIE, Alta. - Warning signs have been set up and patrols have been increased in an Airdrie, Alta., park after two children were bitten by a coyote during a Christmas season festival. Officials are ...
Dec 19, 2018
Tragedy and inspiration: Humboldt Broncos team chosen Newsmaker of the Year
Many died, several struggled in recovery and some hit the ice again. The Humboldt Broncos hockey team, changed forever after a highway crash in April, has been chosen as Canada’s Newsmaker of th...
Dec 19, 2018
Third Canadian detained in China not believed to be linked to other arrests: PM
OTTAWA - Chinese authorities have detained a third Canadian but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there’s no reason yet to believe the case is linked to the recent arrests of two other Canadian...
Dec 19, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 19
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 19 --- APPEAL COURT TO RULE IN B.C. TERROR CASE British Columbia’s Appeal Court is scheduled to release a decision today on a couple whose guilty ver...
Dec 19, 2018
'Here is my home:' Refugee whose fingers froze off finds hope in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Razak Iyal still wakes up in the middle of the night feeling the icy winds on Christmas Eve two years ago when his life drastically changed. “It comes into my dreams all the time. I a...
Dec 19, 2018
Donald and Robert and Chuck and Nancy: Washington will be must-see TV in 2019
WASHINGTON - Living alongside the United States has been likened to sleeping with a twitching, grunting elephant - a political animal that’s now on the verge of a full-blown, delirious fever dre...
Dec 19, 2018
