Category Archives: Canada
Politicians criticize Trudeau's reaction to critics of Energy East demise
EDMONTON - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should not go after critics of the cancelled Energy East pipeline project, but should look to his own actions. S...
Oct 10, 2017
Jagmeet Singh boasts of his hair, says ready to reveal it under right conditions
ALMA, Que. - Newly minted federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the hair nestled tightly under his turban is real and it’s spectacular. During a trip to Quebec’s Saguenay region Tuesday ah...
Oct 10, 2017
Ibuprofen as effective as oral morphine for kids' pain relief after surgery, study finds
TORONTO - Ibuprofen appears to be as effective as oral morphine for reducing mild to moderate pain in children who have had orthopedic day surgery - without the side-effects associated with the opioid...
Oct 10, 2017
Feds find more than a dozen who had entered US from Canada
DERBY LINE, Vt. - The U.S. Border Patrol says agents apprehended a group of 16 people from Mexico and two countries in Central America after some of them illegally entered the United States from Canad...
Oct 10, 2017
B.C. researchers develop spray-on solution to costly quake conundrum
VANCOUVER - It was while flipping through British Columbia’s seismic upgrade guidelines at the beginning of his civil engineering master’s degree that Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki first reali...
Oct 10, 2017
Self-driving Ubers could still be many years away, says research head
MONTREAL - The head of Uber’s new self-driving vehicle lab says a viable, on-demand autonomous commercial transportation service remains a long-term goal. “Having self-driving cars at a sm...
Oct 10, 2017
Local man charged with murder in death of Canadian killed in Belize:police
COROZAL, Belize - Police in Belize say they have charged a 52-year-old man with murder in the shooting death of a Canadian man last week. Spokesman Raphael Martinez says officers arrested Apolonio Kio...
Oct 10, 2017
Nova Scotia fines Northern Pulp mill about $700 for failing stack test
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia pulp mill has been fined nearly $700 by the province after flunking a stack test in June, but the amount has the premier questioning whether it’s enough of a deterrent. E...
Oct 10, 2017
Rocker Roger Waters lends star power to Ecuadorians' $9.5B Chevron fight
TORONTO - Two groups of Indigenous Ecuadorian villagers, backed by some star power from legendary British rocker Roger Waters, faced off briefly against oil giant Chevron in a Canadian court Tuesday a...
Oct 10, 2017
Todd Stone joins B.C. Liberal leadership race, which now has eight candidates
VICTORIA - The latest hopeful to run for the leadership of British Columbia’s Liberals spoke candidly Tuesday about the elephant in the room that contributed to the party’s downfall after ...
Oct 10, 2017
