Category Archives: Canada
Feds urged to back research on psychedelic drugs for medical treatments
OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are urging Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor to support broad research on the use of psychedelic drugs -including LSD and an active ingredient in magic mushrooms - ...
Sep 25, 2017
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle make first official public appearance together
TORONTO - Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle chose to make their public debut as a couple in Toronto on Monday, making an unexpected but highly anticipated appearance together at the Invict...
Sep 25, 2017
B.C. government invites public to share views on marijuana rules
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver councillor says it may take years, but he can see the day a craft cannabis industry emerges in British Columbia, with smoking lounges in the city allowing people to responsibly...
Sep 25, 2017
Singh appears to lead NDP leadership fundraising as race nears finish line
OTTAWA - NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh appears to have the fundraising lead among his fellow competitors as the race to replace Tom Mulcair inches closer to its finale. The most recent round of...
Sep 25, 2017
Trudeau won't weigh in on Kurdish independence, citing Quebec lesson
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pointed to his own experience in two Quebec referendums to explain why Canada won’t weigh in on the push for independence by Iraq’s Kurdish popul...
Sep 25, 2017
New directives limit, but don't fully outlaw, use of torture-tainted information
OTTAWA - New federal directives limit - but don’t totally forbid - Canada’s national police, spy and border agencies from using information that was likely extracted through overseas tortu...
Sep 25, 2017
Nova Scotia pre-primary classes will be up and running by end of week:minister
HALIFAX - A key campaign promise by Nova Scotia Liberals will be fulfilled when the expansion of pre-primary classes for four-year-olds is up and running by the end of the week, says Education Ministe...
Sep 25, 2017
Chelsea Manning says she was denied entry to Canada over her criminal record
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says no one asked him whether a former U.S. soldier who leaked thousands of classified military documents should be deemed inadmissible to Canada because ...
Sep 25, 2017
Suspect in Quebec Amber Alert case makes brief initial court appearance
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - The 41-year-old father at the heart of an Amber Alert in Quebec earlier this month was hunched over, eyes fixed to the ground as he made his first appearance in court Monday. He n...
Sep 25, 2017
Manitoba mother arrested after child abandoned in stroller in Brandon
BRANDON, Man. - Police in western Manitoba have charged a mother for abandoning her toddler in a stroller. Brandon police say an 18-month-old girl was left alone in the city’s downtown in August...
Sep 25, 2017
