Category Archives: Canada
More than 100 finches rescued from foreclosed home in Ottawa
An animal rescue group is working to rehome more than 100 small birds found in a foreclosed house in Ottawa. Jill Woods, who runs the Feathered Haven Parrot Rescue in Smiths Falls, Ont., said the bird...
Jan 10, 2018
Resignations prompt P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan to shuffle his cabinet
CHARLOTTETOWN - Decisions by two senior cabinet ministers to leave politics have prompted a major cabinet shuffle in Prince Edward Island. The changes were announced Wednesday as Finance Minister Alle...
Jan 10, 2018
Despite NAFTA jitters, Canada launches trade broadside against U.S.
WASHINGTON - Prepare for a tense moment in Canada-U.S. relations - with hard bargaining on NAFTA on the horizon prompting nervous glances at Donald Trump to see whether he cancels the agreement, now c...
Jan 10, 2018
Students feel safer with police presence in certain Ontario high schools: Study
A program that places police officers in some southern Ontario high schools made students feel safer and helped them build positive relationships with law enforcement, a study released Wednesday concl...
Jan 10, 2018
TSB says unstable landing led to plane crash that killed Jean Lapierre, six others
MONTREAL - A pilot’s decision to continue with an unstable approach to landing was the key factor in a plane crash that killed former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and six other people,...
Jan 10, 2018
'Hold the sugar, hold the cream, Tim Hortons don't be mean,' protesters chant
TORONTO - Protesters who rallied outside Tim Hortons locations across Ontario on Wednesday roasted some franchisees for slashing workers’ benefits and breaks in an effort to compensate for the p...
Jan 10, 2018
Head of Anglican Church of Canada announces he'll retire in 2019
TORONTO - Canada’s top Anglican bishop says he plans to retire next year. Fred Hiltz says he’s been a bishop for 23 years and has served as the national leader, or primate, for the past de...
Jan 10, 2018
Man, two women, found dead in car on northern Alberta access road
CONKLIN, Alta. - RCMP say three people have been found dead in a car in northern Alberta. They say a security guard found a 29-year-old man and two women, ages 21 and 22, in a two-door car on a semi-r...
Jan 10, 2018
CIBC report says strength in job market even better than headlines suggest
TORONTO - A report by CIBC says the recent strength in Canada’s labour market runs deeper than just the 420,000 jobs added last year. CIBC deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal says the economy al...
Jan 10, 2018
Trudeau tells town hall heckler that he, too, is angry about Khadr's settlement
HAMILTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a woman heckling him about Omar Khadr during a town hall Wednesday in Hamilton that he, too, is angry about the $10.5 million his government paid last sum...
Jan 10, 2018
