Category Archives: Canada
Supreme Court to hear questions in controversial Edmonton hotel killing case
OTTAWA - The case of an Ontario trucker acquitted in the death of an Alberta woman referred to at trial as a “native” and a “prostitute” is to go before the Supreme Court this ...
Oct 08, 2018
'What are you afraid of?': Quebec teachers decry proposed religious symbol ban
MONTREAL - Amrit Kaur’s turban never leaves her body, no matter what she does. The 27-year-old student teacher from Vaudreuil-Dorion, west of Montreal, has even figured out a way to shower with ...
Oct 08, 2018
Refuge areas crucial to saving bird species as climate changes: study
With more depressing results that suggest climate change threatens half of Canada’s songbirds with significant habitat loss, you might expect one of the new study’s authors to be downcast....
Oct 08, 2018
Researchers hope rare find of wrecked whaler holds clues about sailors' lives
CALGARY - Matthew Ayre was transcribing logbooks from British whaling ships in March when he became intrigued by entries describing a whaler that wrecked off the east coast of Baffin Island early in t...
Oct 08, 2018
Fire, smoke fill Saint John sky after oil refinery blast: 'My whole house shook'
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A massive oil refinery blast shook this historic port city Monday, sending flames and black smoke high into the sky but causing only four minor injuries - and leaving officials reli...
Oct 08, 2018
Supreme Court to hear questions in controversial Edmonton hotel killing case
OTTAWA - The case of an Ontario trucker acquitted in the death of an Alberta woman referred to at trial as a “native” and a “prostitute” is to go before the Supreme Court this ...
Oct 08, 2018
'What are you afraid of?': Quebec teachers decry proposed religious symbol ban
MONTREAL - Amrit Kaur’s turban never leaves her body, no matter what she does. The 27-year-old student teacher from Vaudreuil-Dorion, west of Montreal, has even figured out a way to shower with ...
Oct 08, 2018
Refuge areas crucial to saving bird species as climate changes: study
With more depressing results that suggest climate change threatens half of Canada’s songbirds with significant habitat loss, you might expect one of the new study’s authors to be downcast....
Oct 08, 2018
Researchers hope rare find of wrecked whaler holds clues about sailors' lives
CALGARY - Matthew Ayre was transcribing logbooks from British whaling ships in March when he became intrigued by entries describing a whaler that wrecked off the east coast of Baffin Island early in t...
Oct 08, 2018
Fire, smoke fill Saint John sky after oil refinery blast: 'My whole house shook'
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A massive oil refinery blast shook this historic port city Monday, sending flames and black smoke high into the sky but causing only four minor injuries - and leaving officials reli...
Oct 08, 2018
