Category Archives: Canada
Task force developed between Ottawa, Inuit to tackle sky-high tuberculosis rates
OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled Thursday a plan aimed at eliminating the sky high rate of tuberculosis among Canada’s Inuit population. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announ...
Oct 05, 2017
Two injured in Manitoba crash involving donkey, distracted driver
CARMAN, Man. - RCMP in southern Manitoba say two people who stopped on the side of a road to capture a roaming donkey were hurt when a distracted driver rear-ended their vehicle. Officers say the donk...
Oct 05, 2017
Feds to announce payout of up to $800M to Indigenous victims of '60s Scoop
TORONTO - The federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to survivors of the ’60s Scoop for the harm suffered by Indigenous children who were robbed of their cultural i...
Oct 05, 2017
Halifax warship returns from hurricane-scarred Caribbean islands
HALIFAX - Standing on the rear deck of the Canadian warship HMCS St. John’s, Howard Shillingford shook his head as he recalled the sound hurricane Maria made when the Category 5 storm descended ...
Oct 05, 2017
Watchdog investigating Waterloo regional police after 2 die in collision
FREELTON, Ont. - Two people were killed in a southern Ontario highway collision on Thursday after a car being chased by police crashed into a transport truck. The incident in rural Hamilton is being i...
Oct 05, 2017
Quebec Superior Court rejects cabbies' demands, rules deal with Uber legal
MONTREAL - Quebec’s traditional taxi industry suffered another blow on Thursday after the province’s Superior Court rejected its demands to have Uber’s operations declared illegal an...
Oct 05, 2017
Ont. man who sexually abused daughters, nieces, deemed dangerous offender
An Ontario man who sexually abused his young daughters and nieces over close to a decade will spend an indeterminate amount of time behind bars after a judge found he was in denial about his pedophili...
Oct 05, 2017
A by the numbers look at the federal government's problem-plagued payroll system
OTTAWA - The federal government’s Phoenix payroll system left thousands of civil servants underpaid, overpaid or not paid at all after it went live in February 2016. Some of the numbers released...
Oct 05, 2017
Las Vegas attack leaves costly wake for uninsured Canadian victims
CALGARY - Hudson Mack says he doesn’t know the cost of his Victoria-based son’s intensive medical care after being shot Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, only tha...
Oct 05, 2017
Quebec man charged with 1st degree murder in partner's slaying southwest of Montreal
SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Que. - A Quebec man who is accused of killing his partner and wounding a provincial police officer was arraigned on five charges on Thursday, including first-degree murder. Q...
Oct 05, 2017
