Category Archives: Canada
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $7 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket purchased in Ontario. The jac...
Oct 01, 2017
NewsAlert: Large police presence in downtown Edmonton after officer hurt
EDMONTON - There is a large police presence in downtown Edmonton after an officer was injured outside a football game and witnesses told local media a U-Haul van hit at least one pedestrian a few hour...
Oct 01, 2017
Second child dies in northern Ontario First Nation in a month
HEARST, Ont. - A Northern Ontario First Nation is dealing with the death of another child, the second in less than a month. Ontario Provincial Police say they were called early Saturday morning to ass...
Sep 30, 2017
Game show host Monty Hall dies at 96
LOS ANGELES - If not for the prejudice of the times, Monte Halperin, the Jewish butcher’s kid from Winnipeg’s north end, might have entered medical school and Monty Hall would never have b...
Sep 30, 2017
Police searching for sailor who went missing from cargo ship in Quebec
TROIS RIVIERES, Que. - Quebec provincial police searched the waters and shoreline near the port of Trois-Rivieres on Saturday looking for any sign of a sailor who disappeared from a docked cargo ship ...
Sep 30, 2017
Racial slur by faculty member at University of Toronto college prompts apology
TORONTO - The head of a prestigious graduate college associated with the University of Toronto is apologizing for racist statements made by a faculty member toward a black student. Hugh Segal is also ...
Sep 30, 2017
Pro- and anti- immigration protesters face off in duelling rallies
MONTREAL - Pro- and anti- immigration protesters faced off in duelling rallies Saturday. Members of the right-wing group Storm Alliance announced a series of rallies outside border crossing points and...
Sep 30, 2017
Air France plane forced to land Labrador due to "serious damage" to engine
GOOSE BAY, N.L. - Air France had to bring in extra flights to shuttle passengers from Canada to California after a flight was forced to land in Labrador following “serious damage” to one o...
Sep 30, 2017
Ontario town offers 90 per cent off land, other incentives to move there
A northern Ontario town nearly ruined by the collapse of its local paper industry is offering generous incentives to those who want to move there and help rebuild the community. Smooth Rock Falls, Ont...
Sep 30, 2017
Biologists work to save Quebec's "most urban" snake as construction booms
MONTREAL - The Montreal area’s construction boom is threatening to permanently evict Quebec’s “most urban” species of snake, according to a biologist working to protect the pop...
Sep 30, 2017
