Category Archives: Canada
No flood of extremist returnees to Canada expected, federal report says
OTTAWA - There has been no surge of extremist travellers returning to Canada, despite the overseas setbacks suffered by militant forces in Iraq and Syria, a new federal report says. The annual report ...
Dec 11, 2018
Quebec adoptees finally getting some long-sought answers about their roots
CHAMBLY, Que. - For Raymonde Thibeault, it was the little details others took for granted about their roots that weighed on her. Adopted on Christmas Day 1955 just weeks after her birth, she knew noth...
Dec 11, 2018
Feds given green light to award warship contract after tribunal reverses course
OTTAWA - The federal government can award a contract to design the country’s $60-billion fleet of new warships after a trade tribunal reversed an earlier order not to finish the deal. The Canadi...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian physicist who won Nobel Prize touts science for the sake of science
Winning a Nobel Prize changed nearly everything about Donna Strickland’s professional life except the principles that helped shape it in the first place. The University of Waterloo professor has...
Dec 11, 2018
Prairie police chiefs call on Ottawa for help as meth-fuelled crime skyrockets
OTTAWA - Police chiefs say methamphetamine is fuelling a crime wave in some of Western Canada’s biggest cities as use of the highly addictive drug skyrockets across the Prairies. Calgary’s...
Dec 11, 2018
Trump to envoy Canada says Huawei arrest not political, but China rise is worrying
OTTAWA - China’s economic and political rise may be bad news for North American workers but the U.S. pursuit of a Huawei executive is a separate legal matter, says Donald Trump’s envoy to ...
Dec 11, 2018
Postal union challenges constitutionality of government's back-to-work bill
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post employees is taking the Trudeau government to court over the legislation that ended rotating strikes by its members. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers sa...
Dec 11, 2018
N.B. professor documents full rise and decline of astronomical event
SACKVILLE, N.B. - A New Brunswick physics professor says an astronomical discovery could give rare insight into the workings of the universe and advance the study of stellar evolution. Catherine Lovek...
Dec 11, 2018
Absentee Liberal MP defends himself in House of Commons speech
OTTAWA - A Liberal MP who’s stayed out of the House of Commons for months says he’s been busy with other important work. “Time spent in the House is a part of a member’s work b...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian lacrosse team's promotion fails to score big win with all fans
SASKATOON - A promotion by the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League to get fans involved in a singalong of what has become a controversial Christmas favourite is being called silly and ta...
Dec 11, 2018
