Category Archives: Canada
Canada's Walk of Fame to add Donovan Bailey, Anna Paquin, Viola Desmond and more
TORONTO - Six influential Canadians from the circles of sports, entertainment and culture will be added to Canada’s Walk of Fame next month. Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey, Oscar-winning ...
Oct 25, 2017
Ottawa's Canada Science and Technology Museum reopening with new sensory exhibit
OTTAWA - The technology used in the field of medicine has grown by leaps and bounds over the past century, but when the Canada Science and Technology Museum reopens in Ottawa next month, a new exhibit...
Oct 25, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, Oct. 25
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 25 --- PREPARE MORE WOMEN FOR SKILLED TRADES, REPORT SAYS Recruitment efforts to get more women working in manufacturing will fail unless girls get the educ...
Oct 25, 2017
Gender gap in manufacturing won't narrow without more training for women: report
OTTAWA - Recruitment efforts to get more women working in manufacturing will fail unless girls get the education and training needed for those jobs, says a new report. “Businesses are actively l...
Oct 25, 2017
A lonely rebellion: GOPers fighting Trump find themselves on the outs
WASHINGTON - This week provided overwhelming evidence that Donald Trump is ensconced in the driver’s seat of the Republican party, steamrolling internal competition, making political casualties ...
Oct 25, 2017
Muslim FBI agent who helped Canada wants to reclaim his religion from jihadis
OTTAWA - A Muslim FBI agent who helped Canadian authorities foil a terrorist plot says his religion is being desecrated by violent jihadis - and he wants the public to hear a different story. The keys...
Oct 25, 2017
U.S. groups threaten Canadian snow crab imports over whale deaths
OTTAWA - An alliance of U.S. environmental groups is preparing to ask Washington to ban imports of Canadian snow crab unless Ottawa steps up its efforts to save the endangered Atlantic right whales. A...
Oct 25, 2017
'We burned a girl and threw her in the lake,' Laura Babcock's murder trial hears
TORONTO - An Ontario man accused of murdering a young Toronto woman whose body has never been found confessed to burning “a girl” and tossing her in a lake, a witness told court on Wednesd...
Oct 25, 2017
Saskatchewan to allow victims to sue if intimate images shared without consent
REGINA - People who have had intimate images shared without their permission will be able to sue for compensation in Saskatchewan. The provincial government said Wednesday that it plans to change its ...
Oct 25, 2017
Parents of murdered Montreal store clerk speak at sentencing hearing
MONTREAL - A young woman who was murdered as she worked in a busy Montreal grocery store was a luminous, loving and peaceful girl whose life was stolen, her parents said during sentencing arguments We...
Oct 25, 2017
