Category Archives: Canada
'Most loving:' Memorial held for Saskatchewan woman attacked in alley in 2014
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A memorial service was held Monday night to celebrate the life of a Saskatchewan woman who captured the public eye after she survived a brutal beating, a sexual assault and bein...
Nov 28, 2017
Photo of bones burning in incinerator focus of testimony in Babcock murder trial
TORONTO - A photograph of what appears to be bones burning inside an animal incinerator was the focus of testimony Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of killing a young Toronto woman whose body h...
Nov 28, 2017
B.C. Real Estate Association predicts further dip in home sales in 2018
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Real Estate Association predicts continued cooling of the provincial housing market in 2018, but it cautions would-be home buyers that prices likely won’t soften...
Nov 28, 2017
Charges dropped against 1 of 2 officers charged in Indigenous woman's death
TORONTO - Charges against one of two Ontario police officers charged in the death of a 39-year-old Indigenous woman have been dropped. In July, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit charged Cons...
Nov 28, 2017
'I'm going to be lost,' 87-year-old
Ontario woman says after local paper closed
When Joan Aikins moved to Barrie, Ont., in 1954, she turned to the city’s paper for everything from local news to deals on diapers for her newborn child. Four years later, when the Barrie Examin...
Nov 28, 2017
Grassy Narrows pleads for governments to build and fund mercury treatment centre
TORONTO - Leaders from a Northern Ontario First Nation urged the federal and Ontario governments to commit to building and funding a mercury treatment centre in their community ahead of a meeting with...
Nov 28, 2017
Economic recovery in oil provinces helps lower national vacancy rate: CMHC
The economic recovery in Western Canadian oil-producing provinces contributed to the first decrease in the national apartment vacancy rate in three years, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation s...
Nov 28, 2017
Liberals table bill to expunge gay sex convictions, part of LGBTQ apology
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government has introduced legislation that would allow people to apply to have their criminal convictions for consensual sexual activity between same-sex partners erased f...
Nov 28, 2017
Capsule for fecal transplant as good as colonoscopy to treat C. difficile: study
TORONTO - When it comes to treating Clostridium difficile with a fecal transplant - yes, human poop - swallowing a frozen capsule appears to have far less of an “ick factor” and works as w...
Nov 28, 2017
It's not Longfellow, but Calgary mayor waxes poetic about Grey Cup victors
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi donned a Toronto Argonauts jersey on Monday to live up to a Grey Cup bet he made with his Toronto counterpart John Tory. The Calgary Stampeders lost 27-24 to Toronto in las...
Nov 28, 2017
