Category Archives: Canada
Christmas trees offered to get rid of invasive spruce trees in 2 provinces
EDMONTON - Christmas trees are available for free in Saskatchewan or by donation in Alberta this weekend - and it’s for a good cause. The Nature Conservancy of Canada is hosting tree harvesting ...
Dec 07, 2017
Alberta court grants Unifor injunction blocking Suncor from random drug testing
EDMONTON - A union that represents 3,000 oilsands workers at Suncor Energy sites in northeastern Alberta has won a court injunction against random drug testing. Unifor Local 707-A had argued that rand...
Dec 07, 2017
Quebec hockey teen suspended for rest of the season after stick attack on referee
RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. - A teenage hockey player from Quebec has been suspended for the rest of the season after using his stick to attack a referee in the neck area. The incident occurred Nov. 23 in R...
Dec 07, 2017
Guilty plea in death of 11-year-old girl on northern Manitoba First Nation
WINNIPEG - A teen who willingly gave a DNA sample to police investigating the death of a girl in a remote Manitoba First Nation community has admitted he killed her while sexually assaulting her. The ...
Dec 07, 2017
Canadian members of Oscars academy hopeful about new code of conduct
TORONTO - Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta always thought it was wrong that there was no code of conduct for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body that oversees the Oscars...
Dec 07, 2017
Alberta promises lawsuit, other "consequences" on Saskatchewan licence plate ban
EDMONTON - The licence plate fight between Alberta and Saskatchewan threatened Thursday to escalate into a much bigger trade conflict. Alberta’s economic development minister hinted that the pro...
Dec 07, 2017
Ontario to offer naloxone to police, firefighters as opioid-related deaths rise
TORONTO - Ontario will offer naloxone to police and firefighters across the province and can now approve safe injection sites on its own, it announced Thursday as new figures showed a dramatic spike i...
Dec 07, 2017
Tears, tributes as Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall bids farewell to legislature
REGINA - There were tears and tributes as Brad Wall bid farewell to the Saskatchewan legislature Thursday and looked forward to the next chapter of his life as “just Brad” after a decade a...
Dec 07, 2017
Provinces, feds to debate proposed changes to ever-divisive equalization program
OTTAWA - A decades-old sore spot in the Canadian federation is days away from another flare-up as the country’s finance ministers prepare to discuss potential tweaks to the formula behind equali...
Dec 07, 2017
Mayor urges weary residents of Toronto, Vancouver to move to Saint John, N.B.
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The mayor of Saint John, N.B., is getting a flood of responses after issuing a social media plea for people tired of long Toronto and Vancouver commutes to move east. Don Darling po...
Dec 07, 2017
