Category Archives: Canada
Bertrand Charest denied bail pending appeal of his conviction
MONTREAL - Ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest has been denied bail pending an appeal of his sex-crimes conviction involving his teenage students. The Quebec Court of Appeal heard arguments last Th...
Dec 18, 2017
Inuk woman with liver disease improves but family hopes for wider policy change
TORONTO - The family of an Inuk woman struggling with acute liver failure is expressing optimism about her improving condition, while urging the rapid end of policies that deny transplants to alcoholi...
Dec 18, 2017
B.C. woman hopes for return of diamond ring mistakenly donated with coins
NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia woman hopes her charitable impulse won’t cost her a cherished diamond ring. Trinda Gajek was visiting Nanaimo last week when she stopped to ask a young man if ...
Dec 18, 2017
'North Korea will certainly come up': Tillerson makes first Canadian visit
WASHINGTON - American officials say the North Korea nuclear crisis will be one of several topics of conversation when Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Canada as secretary of state on Tuesday. Ti...
Dec 18, 2017
Manley, CEOs urge Trudeau to join new U.S.-free Trans-Pacific Partnership
OTTAWA - Canada needs to immediately join a revamped Trans-Pacific Partnership that does not include the United States or it will miss its chance to deepen trade links with Asia, warns an ex-Liberal c...
Dec 18, 2017
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's relationship status no longer a secret
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s personal life is no longer under wraps. A series of Instagram photos posted over the weekend show Singh and fashion designer Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu attending wha...
Dec 18, 2017
2017 opioid deaths on pace to hit 4,000, illicit fentanyl a major culprit: PHAC
TORONTO - At least 1,460 Canadians have died from opioid-related overdoses in the first half of 2017 - a number that’s expected to rise, as not all provinces have reported final data for the per...
Dec 18, 2017
Ottawa women's shelter moving to take pets of those fleeing domestic abuse
OTTAWA - An Ottawa women’s shelter says it will be opening doors to pets in an effort to keep families together. Interval House of Ottawa, the city’s oldest shelter for women and children,...
Dec 18, 2017
Calgary pilot project to prevent youth radicalization gets full federal funding
CALGARY - A pilot project aimed at giving young people a sense of belonging so that they are less vulnerable to recruitment by criminal or terrorist groups will continue with full funding from the fed...
Dec 18, 2017
Lack of safeguards makes prison segregation law unconstitutional, judge rules
TORONTO - Isolating a prisoner for more than five days in a process known as administrative segregation is unconstitutional because the system lacks proper safeguards, an Ontario judge ruled Monday. H...
Dec 18, 2017
