Category Archives: Canada
Second World War corvette gets $3.5 million in federal funding for repairs
HALIFAX - Canada’s oldest warship is getting $3.5 million in federal funding to help with extensive repairs. Ottawa says the money will go to the non-profit Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, which ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018
RCMP recruits 'deeply afraid' to speak out about alleged sex abuse: Lawyer
HALIFAX - Two RCMP doctors under police investigation allegedly abused their power over vulnerable young recruits who were “deeply afraid” that speaking out would damage their careers in t...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018

Privacy commissioner: it should be easier to remove, de-index online information
OTTAWA - The federal privacy commissioner says Canadians need better tools to protect their online reputation, including the right to ask search engines to de-index or remove inaccurate, incomplete or...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018

Hydro-Quebec says U.S. export deal will keep local power rates below inflation
MONTREAL - Quebecers won’t get a break on already low hydroelectricity rates but a massive export deal with Massachusetts will give the public utility flexibility to keep increases below inflati...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018

'Unmitigated evil:' Calgary brothers who repeatedly raped girl get 12 years
CALGARY - Two brothers with fetal alcohol syndrome who were sentenced Friday to 12 years for raping a teenage girl more than a dozen times should be kept in prison as long as possible to protect socie...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018
Suspected case of baby trafficking in Quebec involving French national
MONTREAL - Provincial police say a report about an alleged case of baby trafficking involving a Quebec couple is news to them. Montreal La Presse published details Friday of a June 2017 Quebec court j...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018

Poverty not a good reason to take Indigenous kids from parents: Bennett
OTTAWA - Exactly two years after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal said Canada is discriminating against Indigenous kids with chronic underfunding of child welfare services on reserve, the federal go...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018
B.C. man acquitted of terror charges sues provincial, federal governments
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man acquitted of terrorism-related charges has filed a lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments, arguing he was maliciously prosecuted in violation of his ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018
Statement from wife of RCMP officer slain in 2014 shooting spree in Moncton
MONCTON, N.B. - Nadine Larch, whose husband Const. Doug Larche was one of three police officers killed in a 2014 shooting spree in Moncton, made the following statement outside court Friday as the RCM...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018
Federal deficit through first eight months of fiscal year totals $9.1 billion
OTTAWA - The federal government’s deficit for the first eight months of the current fiscal year was smaller than a year earlier as revenue growth outpaced increases in spending. According to the...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2018

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