Category Archives: Canada
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
Nova Scotia's new cyberbullying legislation 'too cautious,' expert says
HALIFAX - A new Nova Scotia law replacing anti-cyberbullying legislation struck down in the courts two years ago is moving forward unchanged, against the advice of legal experts who say it will be cos...
Oct 23, 2017
Activism can help defeat 'illiberal' forces trying to destroy democracies: Clinton
MONTREAL - Citizens in the West must continue standing up for minority rights in order to help fight off the forces trying to destabilize democracies around the world, Hillary Clinton said Monday on t...
Oct 23, 2017
Julie Snyder files sex-assault complaint against Gilbert Rozon
MONTREAL - Julie Snyder, one of the biggest names in Quebec’s entertainment industry, has filed a complaint of sexual assault against Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon. The former wife of bu...
Oct 23, 2017
New U.S. envoy Kelly Craft faces challenges representing Donald Trump
OTTAWA - Kelly Craft’s first acts of public diplomacy in Canada involved quoting John F. Kennedy - a Democrat - and acknowledging the country’s collective loss of Gord Downie. As for her b...
Oct 23, 2017
