Category Archives: Canada
Ontario ticket wins Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - A single ticket sold in Ontario claimed Friday night’s $10 million Lotto Max jackpot. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Oct. 20 will again be approximately $10 million. The Ca...
Oct 14, 2017
Nuclear commission says no harm caused in explosion at Saskatchewan plant
KEY LAKE, Sask. - The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission says there was a small propane explosion in the acid plant sulphur furnace at Cameco’s Key Lake mill earlier this week. The commission sa...
Oct 13, 2017
Winnipeg police officer charged after pedestrian dies in hit-and-run
Winnipeg’s police chief says off-duty officers have the same right as anyone else to socialize after work, sometimes with alcohol. But Chief Danny Smyth says like anyone else, if an officer has ...
Oct 13, 2017
Correction to story about death of a Kamloops university executive
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Canadian Press erroneously reported on Tuesday that Thompson Rivers University had issued a statement on the hospitalization of Christopher Seguin, its vice-president of advanceme...
Oct 13, 2017
General Motors reaches tentative agreement at its Ontario CAMI plant
TORONTO - General Motors reached a tentative deal with the striking workers at its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., on Friday. Few details of the pact were provided by the company or Unifor, the union w...
Oct 13, 2017
Former B.C. director pleads guilty to breach of trust in vote-getting scandal
VANCOUVER - A former communications director for British Columbia’s previous Liberal government has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in connection with a vote-getting scandal. Brian Bonney wa...
Oct 13, 2017
Fire that killed three people in Nanaimo, B.C., ruled accidental
NANAIMO, B.C. - The cause of a house fire that killed a family of three in Nanaimo, B.C., has been ruled accidental. An investigation by Nanaimo Fire and Rescue suggests the most likely cause of the f...
Oct 13, 2017
Teen charged with murder in slaying 14-year-old in northern Quebec village
INUKJUAK, Que. - A 17-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a teenage girl this summer in the remote northern Quebec village of Inukjuak. Provincial police spokeswom...
Oct 13, 2017
Refugee minister calls RCMP questionnaire targeting Muslims 'unacceptable'
VANCOUVER - Canada’s immigration minister is condemning an RCMP questionnaire that appears to target Muslim asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States into Quebec. Speaking in Van...
Oct 13, 2017
No injuries in Quebec train derailment
LAVAL, Que. - Nobody was hurt and there was little environmental damage after several empty cars from a derailed freight train plunged off a bridge near Montreal, a local mayor said Friday. Laval Mayo...
Oct 13, 2017
