Category Archives: Canada
'Thought I was dead for sure': Worker recalls escape from Irving Oil explosion
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - First, Jonathan Wright heard a loud hissing. Then he was thrown to the ground and turned to see a wall of orange, as flames surrounded him and several other workers after a massive ...
Oct 09, 2018
Liberals told to build new benefits for ill, unemployed workers, docs show
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has been given an ambitious plan for closing several gaps in the social-safety net for ill and unemployed Canadians that includes creating a new program to help those w...
Oct 09, 2018
Woodlands survivors begin receiving compensation from B.C. government
VANCOUVER - Survivors of abuse at a notorious school and psychiatric facility in New Westminster, B.C., have begun receiving compensation from the provincial government, after previously being left ou...
Oct 08, 2018
Woodlands survivors begin receiving compensation from B.C. government
VANCOUVER - Survivors of abuse at a notorious school and psychiatric facility in New Westminster, B.C., have begun receiving compensation from the provincial government, after previously being left ou...
Oct 08, 2018
Experts express concern about refinery safety in wake of Irving blast
Oil refineries and other large industrial operations that are surrounded by residential communities need to work harder to ensure safety and protect their own bottom lines, multiple experts say. A mas...
Oct 08, 2018
Experts express concern about refinery safety in wake of Irving blast
Oil refineries and other large industrial operations that are surrounded by residential communities need to work harder to ensure safety and protect their own bottom lines, multiple experts say. A mas...
Oct 08, 2018
Halifax naval memorial vandalized with anti-war slogans, anarchy symbols
HALIFAX - Vandals defaced a Halifax naval memorial honouring thousands who died in the First and Second World Wars overnight Sunday, but veterans and others quickly went to work removing the graffiti....
Oct 08, 2018
Halifax naval memorial vandalized with anti-war slogans, anarchy symbols
HALIFAX - Vandals defaced a Halifax naval memorial honouring thousands who died in the First and Second World Wars overnight Sunday, but veterans and others quickly went to work removing the graffiti....
Oct 08, 2018
Ex governor general Michaelle Jean in tough spot as la Francophonie vote nears
OTTAWA - The contest between Michaelle Jean and Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo for la Francophonie’s top post goes far beyond the spending questions that have plagued the fo...
Oct 08, 2018
Chretien predicts common sense will prevail in debate over religious symbols
OTTAWA - Jean Chretien says Quebec’s political class is “trapped” in a pointless debate over a non-existent problem: how to accommodate religious minorities. And the former prime min...
Oct 08, 2018
