Category Archives: Canada

Home sales in B.C. rise in October despite higher prices, less choice
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s housing market continues to power forward even though real estate experts say fewer properties are available for sale. The British Columbia Real Estate Association...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Website will track commitments in mandate letters for Liberal ministers
OTTAWA - People looking to know how the Liberals have fared on fulfilling their promises - as well as how far they have to go - can now visit a website the federal government has set up to track the t...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Newfoundland and Labrador's deficit grows amid lower offshore oil royalties
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador will target big spending in health, education and by the Crown corporation overseeing the bloated Muskrat Falls project as its deficit mounts. The pr...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Quebec coroner says Jehovah's Witnesses had right to refuse blood transfusions
MONTREAL - Anyone has the right to refuse a blood transfusion, even if it means certain death, says a Quebec coroner who studied the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two Jehovah’s Witness...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Father of woman missing in B.C. fundraises for drones to help other families
VANCOUVER - John Simpson is determined to use the novel experience he gained in a troubling search for his daughter to help others who have lost loved ones. Ashley Simpson went missing in Salmon Arm, ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Concordia University issues warning after sex assault, drugging reports
Montreal’s Concordia University is warning students in the wake of at least two alleged sexual assaults. The university says female students were assaulted in both cases after being contacted th...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Family, friends, teammates say final goodbye to Roy Halladay
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Toronto Blue Jays pitching great Roy Halladay was remembered Tuesday as an amazing husband, father, friend and teammate who was one of the best pitchers of his generation but an eve...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017
PM reassures Duterte he will get rid of Canadian trash stuck in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he reassured Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that Ottawa is searching for a way to dispose of thousands of tons of Canadian trash languish...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Donair Cam: Halifax's official food now live streaming 24 hours a day
HALIFAX - Homesick Haligonians can now tune into around-the-clock footage of Halifax’s official food: the donair. The “Donair Cam” is a 24-hour live stream of a seasoned log of meat ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

Newfoundland police name dead man as suspect in Cortney Lake vanishing
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police have named a dead man as the only suspect in a young Newfoundland woman’s disappearance, as her mother pleaded for people to come forward with information in a pr...
Kayla Derkach Nov 14, 2017

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