Category Archives: Canada
Canadian 'Arrow' star Stephen Amell speaks out amid allegations against producer
VANCOUVER - Canadian “Arrow” star Stephen Amell is offering to help “in any way, shape or form” as Warner Bros. Television Group investigates allegations of sexual harassment a...
Nov 14, 2017
New Brunswick man facing two first-degree murder charges after house fire
TRACADIE, N.B. - New Brunswick RCMP say a 19-year-old Tracadie man is facing first-degree murder charges after two bodies were found following a weekend house fire. Police say Benoit Bertin appeared i...
Nov 14, 2017
Calgary-area man charged after social media photo of dog tied to flatbed truck
CALGARY - A Calgary-area man is facing charges after a photo of dog tethered to a flatbed trailer began circulating on social media. Calgary police, the Calgary Humane Society and Rocky View County be...
Nov 14, 2017
P.E.I. to take steps to boost population, 'help newcomers feel at home'
CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island - Canada’s smallest but fastest-growing province - is promising measures to get more immigrants to come, and stay. The Island’s population topped 152,0...
Nov 14, 2017
Ottawa files lawsuit in dispute over broken northern Manitoba rail line
Ottawa filed a lawsuit against the owners of a broken rail line in northern Manitoba on Tuesday, hours after the company said it would file a complaint against the federal government under the North A...
Nov 14, 2017
Lawyer for accused in Edmonton attack says there may be mental-health issues
EDMONTON - A man facing several counts of attempted murder after a police officer was hit with a car and stabbed by an assailant is to face two psychiatric assessments. The reviews are to determine Ab...
Nov 14, 2017
United Church court hearing on defrocking atheist minister delayed
TORONTO - An unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing that could see the United Church defrock a self-professed atheist minister who does not believe in the Bible has been postponed indefinitely. Th...
Nov 14, 2017
'God help me, I'm going to die,' hunter recalls as bison grinds him into ground
WHITEHORSE - A hunter has a harrowing tale of survival after nearly becoming the quarry during his first-ever bison hunt in Yukon. “All I seen was horns,” Todd Pilgrim said, describing the...
Nov 14, 2017
Acadia University's faculty association sets Nov. 27 strike deadline
WOLFVILLE, N.S. - Hundreds of professors and other staff at Acadia University could hit the picket line in two weeks. The Acadia University Faculty Association says it has set a Nov. 27 strike deadlin...
Nov 14, 2017
Scrap disastrous Phoenix pay system, union head urges Trudeau government
OTTAWA - Give us a year, and we’ll build a working replacement for the trouble-plagued Phoenix pay system, one of the country’s biggest civil service unions told the Trudeau Liberals on Tu...
Nov 14, 2017
