Category Archives: Canada
Two charges against Mountie after man shot dead outside Surrey police station
VANCOUVER - Charges of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon have been laid against an RCMP officer after the fatal shooting in 2015 of a young man in Surrey, B.C. Const. Elizabeth Cucheran is ...
Dec 19, 2017
'I feel for families,' says Inuk woman who questioned liver transplant policy
TORONTO - An Inuk woman with acute liver failure spoke of her sadness that Canadians are dying due to rules that prevent some from receiving organ transplants, as she gave an emotional news conference...
Dec 19, 2017
Rudolph and rest of Santa's reindeer are all female, says scientist
The first written account of Santa Claus having reindeer was in 1821, and since then most people have assumed the reindeer were male - but a scientist says those people would be wrong. Andrew Hebda, a...
Dec 19, 2017
Decision reserved in trial of Winnipeg man accused of sending letter bombs
WINNIPEG - A man accused of sending homemade letter bombs wanted to kill his ex-wife and two lawyers out of revenge for what he thought was a plot to deprive him of money from his auto-body business, ...
Dec 19, 2017
Only hybrid or electric cars for cabinet as Ottawa aims to cut emissions
OTTAWA - The federal government is going to stop buying internal combustion cars for cabinet ministers starting next year, a new federal environment plan says. The Greening Government Strategy release...
Dec 19, 2017
One of two Montrealers not guilty on three terror-related charges
MONTREAL - The three-month trial of two young Montrealers who faced terror-related offences ended Tuesday with one acquitted on all counts and the other convicted on one reduced charge related to expl...
Dec 19, 2017
Liberals add caveat to summer jobs program funding as applications open
OTTAWA - A federal jobs program targeted at youth met the government’s goal for placements for this past summer after falling short in the first year of the Liberals’ mandate. The governme...
Dec 19, 2017
Veterans brace for Liberals' long-promised disability pension plan
OTTAWA - Veterans across Canada are praying that the Trudeau government will deliver more than a lump of coal when it rolls out its long-awaited plan for providing pensions to injured ex-soldiers. Vet...
Dec 19, 2017
Synagogues in four cities receive anti-Semitic hate mail
TORONTO - At least eight synagogues in four cities across Canada have received anti-Semitic letters calling for the death of Jews, B’nai Brith Canada said. Four synagogues in Toronto, two in Mon...
Dec 19, 2017
Luxury still sells as vacancy rates rise in Alberta's oilsands workcamp sector
CALGARY - Driving by empty workforce accommodation camps along northern Alberta highways near Fort McMurray, the oilsands boom that became a bust still hits home three years after the slide began. The...
Dec 19, 2017
