Category Archives: Canada
Montreal researchers say app to support HIV self-testing shows promise
MONTREAL - A group of Montreal researchers has developed a smartphone and tablet app that they say could help people to detect HIV through self-testing - if such tests are approved in Canada. Research...
Dec 01, 2018
Brian Mulroney remembers George H.W. Bush as 'a great friend of Canada'
Canadian politicians past and present offered their condolences on Saturday following the death of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush, with former prime minister Brian Mulroney calling it “a...
Dec 01, 2018
No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - No one claimed the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, 11 of the 35 Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each that were up for grabs were won. The jackpot for th...
Dec 01, 2018
Trudeau uses face time with Putin, Saudi Arabia's crown prince to apply pressure
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used face time with two of the world’s most controversial leaders - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohamm...
Dec 01, 2018
Grewal rethinking decision to resign as MP, says he has repaid gambling debts
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Raj Grewal says he has repaid his sizable gambling debts and is now reconsidering his hasty decision to quit politics. In a statement posted to his Facebook page late Friday, Grewa...
Nov 30, 2018
Oil and gas commission investigating quakes in northeast British Columbia
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - The British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission is investigating a series of earthquakes that one expert says were very likely caused by hydraulic fracturing, a fuel extraction proce...
Nov 30, 2018
Video of sexual relations can be used at grievance in fire department firings
VANCOUVER - Two employees of the fire department in Vernon, B.C., are battling to keep their jobs after a videotape showed them having sexual relations in the interim fire chief’s office. The pa...
Nov 30, 2018
Kenney says navy's needs guided $700M Quebec ship deal, not electoral math
OTTAWA - Former defence minister Jason Kenney is rejecting suggestions he pushed the Harper government to negotiate a $700-million deal with a Quebec shipyard because of electoral considerations. The ...
Nov 30, 2018
Quebec hitchhiker on back of transport truck left with hypothermia and possible fine
MONTREAL - Emile Claveau couldn’t believe his eyes as he drove to work along a busy highway in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region Wednesday morning. As he approached a transport truck...
Nov 30, 2018
In their own words: Reactions to the signing of the new NAFTA deal
OTTAWA - Some of what was said after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreeme...
Nov 30, 2018
