Category Archives: Canada
N.B. premier says mandate 'accomplished,' will meet with lieutenant-governor
FREDERICTON - The premier of New Brunswick says he’s going to meet with the province’s lieutenant-governor on Monday at a time when his party has “accomplished” its current man...
Oct 20, 2017
Feds: Right whales should remain on endangered list
PORTLAND, Maine - As the North Atlantic right whale nears the end of a year of dangerously high mortality, federal ocean regulators are calling for it to remain listed as endangered, according to a re...
Oct 20, 2017
Berry disappointed: Bear tries to eat fake fruit on Manitoba woman's door wreath
STE. ANNE, Man. - It would have been one berry disappointed bear. Kim Bouwman was sitting in her rural home Thursday in Ste. Anne, about 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg, when she caught something ...
Oct 20, 2017
Ex-Just For Laughs president Gilbert Rozon to sell all his shares
MONTREAL - The founder of Just For Laughs is selling all his shares in the hugely successful comedy festival amid allegations he sexually harassed or sexually assaulted 10 women. Just For Laughs spoke...
Oct 20, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 20 --- GORD DOWNIE’S FAMILY THINKING ABOUT A PUBLIC MEMORIAL: One of Gord Downie’s brothers says the outpouring of public support in the days...
Oct 20, 2017
Student among 3 people stabbed near Toronto school; 1 person in serious condition
TORONTO - A 17-year-old high school student is among three people stabbed Friday afternoon in an east Toronto neighbourhood. Police initially said four people were stabbed but revised the number of vi...
Oct 20, 2017
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh resigns seat in Ontario legislature
TORONTO - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has resigned his seat in Ontario’s legislature. Singh, 38, had served as a member of provincial parliament since 2011, representing the riding of Brama...
Oct 20, 2017
Intolerance, Bombardier and taxing the rich: how politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - After months spent fanning the embers of class warfare with their proposed tax reforms, this was the week when the brush fire blew back on the federal Liberals. Even as the death of Canadian ...
Oct 20, 2017
Man convicted of murder in stabbing death of Montreal store clerk in April 2016
MONTREAL - A man who brutally stabbed a young woman to death in a busy grocery store in Montreal in 2016 was convicted on Friday of first-degree murder. A jury found Randy Tshilumba guilty of premedit...
Oct 20, 2017
No parole for 17 years for man who killed Surrey, B.C., teenager
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A British Columbia man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 17 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Raymond Caissie was se...
Oct 20, 2017
