Category Archives: Canada
RCMP dogs get trained in central Alberta to detect human remains
INNISFAIL, Alta. - The first two RCMP canine teams to be taught to sniff out human remains have graduated from the force’s police dog training centre in central Alberta. What makes their trainin...
Nov 06, 2017
Police officer dies after shooting in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A British Columbia police officer is being remembered as a “hero” after he died Monday in an exchange of gunfire with a man accused of shooting at people in a parking lo...
Nov 06, 2017
Former prime ministers gather in Commons to mark Parliament's 150th anniversary
OTTAWA - Moments from Canada’s colourful - and sometimes dark - past came back into focus Monday as federal politicians and former prime ministers of all partisan stripes gathered in the House o...
Nov 06, 2017
Probe by judicial council committee recommends Quebec judge be removed from office
MONTREAL - A committee of the Canadian Judicial Council recommended in a report released Monday that Michel Girouard be removed from his position as a Quebec Superior Court justice for misconduct and ...
Nov 06, 2017
Constitutional debate over Canada's polygamy law heads back to court
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A decades-long constitutional debate over Canada’s polygamy law is set to flare up again Tuesday, six years after a British Columbia Supreme Court ruled plural marriage is a cr...
Nov 06, 2017
An agony of waiting: Still no answers in N.L. woman's mysterious disappearance
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland family’s agonizing wait for answers was prolonged without explanation Monday as police abruptly cancelled a public update on their investigation into the ...
Nov 06, 2017
Saskatchewan rejects Burnaby request over Trans Mountain pipeline
BURNABY, B.C. - A city in British Columbia wants Saskatchewan’s justice minister to withdraw comments suggesting it “is deliberately slowing down” the Trans Mountain pipeline expansi...
Nov 06, 2017
British Columbia to increase penalties next year for distracted drivers
VICTORIA - Distracted drivers in British Columbia will soon face higher penalties in a government effort to stop a habit that kills an average of 78 people in motor vehicle accidents every year. Attor...
Nov 06, 2017
De-icing fluid gets into plane's A/C, woman taken to hospital, flight grounded
CALGARY - A WestJet flight going to Houston from Calgary was grounded and a woman aboard a plane was taken to hospital after being exposed to de-icing fluid. The company says crews were de-icing the a...
Nov 06, 2017
Regina school reconsiders Davin name in light of residential school history
REGINA - A Saskatchewan school named after a man who wrote a report recommending residential schools for Indigenous youth wants to know if it should change its name. Regina Public Schools is questioni...
Nov 06, 2017
