Category Archives: Canada
'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
Man charged with murder in 2017 death of 12-year-old Nunavut boy
RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - A man has been charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy from Nunavut following a 15-month investigation. Searchers found the body of Ray Taparti Jr., who also went...
Oct 08, 2018
Man charged with murder in 2017 death of 12-year-old Nunavut boy
RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - A man has been charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy from Nunavut following a 15-month investigation. Searchers found the body of Ray Taparti Jr., who also went...
Oct 08, 2018
Trial told of woman's 'intense fear' alone in barracks with dozens of men
HALIFAX - The trial of a British sailor accused in a gang rape at a Halifax-area military base continues Tuesday, after testimony from a young woman who described a harrowing scene of being virtually ...
Oct 08, 2018
Trial told of woman's 'intense fear' alone in barracks with dozens of men
HALIFAX - The trial of a British sailor accused in a gang rape at a Halifax-area military base continues Tuesday, after testimony from a young woman who described a harrowing scene of being virtually ...
Oct 08, 2018
Five of rock band 54-40's seven missing guitars found by New Westminster police
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police say they’ve found five of the seven vintage guitars that were allegedly stolen from rock band 54-40. Investigators in New Westminster, B.C., say they were called a...
Oct 08, 2018
Five of rock band 54-40's seven missing guitars found by New Westminster police
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police say they’ve found five of the seven vintage guitars that were allegedly stolen from rock band 54-40. Investigators in New Westminster, B.C., say they were called a...
Oct 08, 2018
