Category Archives: Canada
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
City holds public hearing to regulate short-term vacation rentals in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Many proponents of the home sharing platform Airbnb called on Vancouver to loosen terms of proposed regulations on the industry, but renters advocates and condominium boards say tight rule...
Oct 24, 2017
WestJet flight makes unscheduled landing due to unruly, drunk passenger
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - RCMP in the northern Alberta detachment of Wood Buffalo say a WestJet flight made an unscheduled landing in Fort McMurray earlier this week due to an unruly drunk. Cpl. Teri-Ann...
Oct 24, 2017
Mother of Canadian man missing in Peru says Apple and Amazon co-operating with police
A Canadian woman who is searching for her missing son in Peru says Amazon and Apple have released information requested by Peruvian police trying to find the 22-year-old. Alisa Clamen, a Montreal resi...
Oct 24, 2017
New Brunswick couple identified as pair found dead in Rocky Mountains
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - A couple from Saint John, N.B., have been identified as the two people found dead this week in the Rocky Mountains - police say the woman was murdered while the man’s death ...
Oct 24, 2017
Accused bank robber, former news director faced debt, divorce and depression
WINNIPEG - Court documents show a former Winnipeg television news director accused of robbing two banks in Alberta was battling depression, facing crippling debt and was the subject of a protection or...
Oct 24, 2017
