Category Archives: Canada
Tragically Hip album sales, audio streams soar after Gord Downie's death
TORONTO - Fans of the Tragically Hip flocked to the band’s music as they mourned the death of singer Gord Downie, which drove a huge boost in sales, streams and radio play. Eleven albums by the ...
Oct 23, 2017
Canadian contribution to peacekeeping reaches new low under Liberals
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals may have promised to ramp up Canada’s role in peacekeeping, but new UN figures show there were fewer Canadian peacekeepers in the field last month than at any point...
Oct 23, 2017
Former CTV Winnipeg news director charged in bank robberies in Alberta
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A former CTV Winnipeg news director and sports anchor has been arrested on robbery charges in Alberta. Medicine Hat police say Stephen Vogelsang, who is 53, is charged with two c...
Oct 23, 2017
'He's gone just like that:' Man dies after walnut shells used at work site
EDMONTON - Justin Mathews had a lifelong nut allergy and was always careful, so his family is stunned that he died after visiting a work site where walnut shells were used to blast paint off walls. Th...
Oct 23, 2017
Saskatchewan Indigenous leader concerned about fatal shooting of man by RCMP
SASKATOON - The head of an organization representing Saskatchewan First Nations is expressing concern following the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man by RCMP. Brydon Whitstone of the Onion Lake Cree...
Oct 23, 2017
Dandelions found in oilsands tailings could help clean them up: researchers
It wasn’t much of a bouquet - just a single lonely dandelion. But it had been plucked from the middle of a barren stretch of oilsands coarse tailings. University of Saskatchewan biologist Susan ...
Oct 23, 2017
Amazon says it received 238 proposals for 2nd headquarters
NEW YORK - Amazon said today that it received 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico hoping to be the home of the company’s second headquarters. The online...
Oct 23, 2017
Dalhousie under fire for probing student leader, 'censoring' political speech
HALIFAX - Dalhousie University is facing scrutiny for investigating a student leader’s polarizing social media comments as a group of law professors and a civil liberties group accuse the univer...
Oct 23, 2017
4 in 10 say if interest rates rise they could be in financial trouble: poll
TORONTO - Four in 10 Canadians say that if interest rates rise any further they fear they will be in financial trouble, a new poll suggests. The survey conducted for insolvency firm MNP Ltd. also foun...
Oct 23, 2017
Britain to give Canada the shipwrecks of explorer John Franklin
OTTAWA - Canada is thanking Great Britain for the gift of two shipwrecks once commanded by John Franklin that lie at the heart of one of this country’s most compelling Arctic myths. “I wou...
Oct 23, 2017
