Category Archives: Canada
Winnipeg woman guilty of hiding infant remains may have wanted to visit: defence
WINNIPEG - A woman who stored the remains of six babies inside a U-haul storage locker was not trying to hide or dispose of them, but was instead keeping them - perhaps to continue to visit them, her ...
Dec 12, 2018
Online sales, interactive displays as lottery agencies vie for customers
WINNIPEG - Like many millennials, Sarah Rogalsky doesn’t go out of her way to buy lottery tickets. The 32-year-old is part of an office pool and chips in $2 a week at her Winnipeg workplace, pri...
Dec 12, 2018
Take my NAFTA, please: As Pelosi riffs, questions abound on fate of USMCA
WASHINGTON - North of the border, Canada’s hard-won free-trade deal with the United States and Mexico is considered a matter of existential importance, heavy with implications for workers, busin...
Dec 12, 2018
Trump's willingness to intervene in Meng detention roils Canada's justification
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reaffirmed Canada’s commitment to the rule of law following Donald Trump’s declaration that he might intervene in charges against a top Chinese c...
Dec 11, 2018
Acting head of OPP asks for investigation into hiring of new commissioner
TORONTO - The interim commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is asking the province’s ombudsman to investigate the appointment of Premier Doug Ford’s family friend to the force̵...
Dec 11, 2018
Early prison release revoked for drunk driver who killed two teens in Saskatoon
SASKATOON - An early release from prison has been revoked for a drunk driver who was behind the wheel of a stolen truck when she killed two Saskatoon teenagers and seriously injured a third. Cheyann P...
Dec 11, 2018
Young woman who orchestrated murder of teen showed genuine remorse: parole board
After struggling to express empathy in the past, a young woman who pressured her boyfriend into killing his teenage ex more than a decade ago appeared to show genuine remorse at a recent parole hearin...
Dec 11, 2018
Sheldon Kennedy removing name from child advocacy centre he founded
CALGARY - Former NHL player and abuse survivor Sheldon Kennedy is removing his name from a child advocacy centre he founded. Kennedy pitched the idea to Calgary’s police chief in 2010 and the fa...
Dec 11, 2018
Skepticism follows Montreal police plan to combat profiling of racial minorities
MONTREAL - Anastasia Marcelin, originally from Haiti, says she became an activist after witnessing how city police treated her three younger brothers in their Montreal North neighbourhood. She was par...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian warship witnesses possible violations of North Korea sanctions
OTTAWA - The crew of a Canadian warship in the Pacific had front-row seats to potential violations of UN sanctions against North Korea during a recent patrol in the East China Sea - but was under orde...
Dec 11, 2018
