Category Archives: Canada
$100 million for gay purge victims as PM apologizes for LGBTQ discrimination
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has earmarked more than $100 million to compensate members of the military and other federal agencies whose careers were sidelined or ended due to their sexual orientat...
Nov 27, 2017
Feds hope to fill Irving's scheduling gap between patrol ships, warships
OTTAWA - The federal government is scrambling to close a looming gap in the construction of two new fleets of naval vessels in Halifax, which Irving Shipbuilding has previously warned could result in ...
Nov 27, 2017
Toronto doctor who sexually abused patients appeals court ruling
TORONTO - A Toronto doctor who sexually abused female patients is fighting a court order that would require the Ontario medical regulator’s discipline committee to impose a tougher penalty for h...
Nov 27, 2017
Ras says he wasn't told of ongoing mercury contamination in Ontario First Nation
OTTAWA - Former federal Liberal leader Bob Rae says he was unaware during his tenure as Ontario premier that there was likely ongoing mercury contamination taking place upstream from Grassy Narrows Fi...
Nov 27, 2017
Man travels more than 90k kilometres to set Ontario birding record
A 27-year-old Ontario man has become the province’s top birder after travelling more than 90,000 kilometres since Jan. 1. Jeremy Bensette of Leamington has spotted 344 species of birds in his tr...
Nov 27, 2017
Woman disappears after leaving bar in B.C. resort town of Whistler
WHISTLER, B.C. - A police dive team searched a lake Monday in Whistler, B.C., looking for any clues in the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman. Alison Raspa was last seen late Wednesday night leaving...
Nov 27, 2017
A list of affected Canadian newspapers in the Torstar-Postmedia deal
Torstar Corp. and Postmedia Network Inc. announced a deal Monday that will result in the closure of more than 30 community and daily newspapers including free dailies in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg a...
Nov 27, 2017
Search for missing plane with two aboard in southeastern B.C. paused overnight
VICTORIA - A search has been scaled back overnight in southeastern British Columbia for a small plane that disappeared Saturday on a flight from Penticton to Edmonton with two people aboard. Joint Res...
Nov 27, 2017
Federal government should manage Alberta's threatened caribou: letter
EDMONTON - Several First Nations and Indigenous groups have asked the federal government to step in and protect some endangered caribou herds on provincial land in Alberta. In a letter to federal Envi...
Nov 27, 2017
Indigenous man says he's sick of being followed around at Giant Tiger in Regina
REGINA - An Indigenous man who shot a video that appears to show him being followed at a Giant Tiger in Regina says he made the recording because he’s sick of being trailed every time he shops a...
Nov 27, 2017
