Category Archives: Canada
Calgary removes artwork containing photos of people that didn't consent
CALGARY - Publicly funded artwork that contained photos of a British comedian and others without their consent has been removed from an underpass in Calgary. A series of giant photographs called ̶...
Nov 30, 2017
B.C. tells feds to back off, stop interfering in Trans Mountain pipeline
VANCOUVER - British Columbia says the federal government needs to back off and stop interfering in an independent review process over the approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. Env...
Nov 30, 2017
TransUnion report projects uptick in credit card delinquency rates in 2018
TORONTO - Expectations of higher interest rates in 2018 and a slight cooling off of the Canadian economy may see more consumers defaulting on credit card loans next year, a report by TransUnion Canada...
Nov 30, 2017
Canadian, American civic leaders urge feds to reject nuclear-waste proposal
TORONTO - More than 100 mayors and other elected officials on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are urging Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to put the kibosh on a proposed nuclear-waste bunke...
Nov 30, 2017
'Smelled' someone suspicious? Cops seek suspect in sewage plant break-in
ST. THOMAS, Ont. - Police in a southwestern Ontario city are appealing to anyone who may have seen or “smelled” someone suspicious following a break-in at a sewage treatment facility. St. ...
Nov 30, 2017
Former cabinet minister Vic Toews cleared of conflict: judicial council
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Judicial Council has rejected complaints that former federal cabinet minister Vic Toews, who is now a Manitoba judge, is unfit to remain on the bench after violating the Confli...
Nov 30, 2017
Driver arrested in alleged naked kidnapping in Alberta is facing more charges
LEDUC, Alta. - One of three people arrested in a bizarre case of an Alberta family allegedly kidnapped by a group of naked people is facing additional charges. Court records show a 35-year-old woman h...
Nov 30, 2017
Second-hand 'toke' could lead to failure of workplace drug test: study
CALGARY - It looks like Canadian Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Ross Rebagliati may have been right all along. Rebagliati, the first Olympic gold medalist for Men’s Snowboarding at the 1998 W...
Nov 30, 2017
Rights groups call on Trudeau to raise plight of prisoners held in China on trip
OTTAWA - A Montreal woman whose father has been imprisoned in China wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to press for the release of him and more than a dozen other prisoners, but she isn’t optim...
Nov 30, 2017
Liberal government withdraws court case on First Nations health care
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is withdrawing a Federal Court challenge over the delivery of health-care services for First Nations children after reaching an agreement with the parties in a case bef...
Nov 30, 2017
