Category Archives: Canada
Sentencing begins in Regina for youth in death of 16-year-old girl
REGINA - A teenaged male who has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder says he was in the room when Skylar Prockner repeatedly stabbed 16-year-old Hannah Leflar for breaking up with him. But the yout...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017
Necropsy scheduled for Tuesday on right whale carcass found off New Brunswick
MISCOU ISLAND, N.B. - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a necropsy will be performed Tuesday on the carcass of a North Atlantic right whale located late last week off the coast of New Brunsw...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

Canadians should worry about U.S. border searches of cell phones: privacy czar
OTTAWA - Canadians should be “very concerned” about their cell phones, computers and other electronic devices being searched by U.S. border agents, the federal privacy czar says. Privacy c...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

Allowances will fill fundraising gap for political parties in B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s plan to get big money out of politics and shake off its reputation as the Wild West of election campaign financing comes with a potential cost to taxpayers of almos...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

U.S. hasn't said what it wants to get back into Paris deal, McKenna says
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the United States has provided no new information about what it would take to entice it back into the Paris climate change accord. McKenna was one ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

Trudeau, fellow MPs remember Liberal Arnold Chan, burnish his legacy
OTTAWA - The first day back in the House of Commons took on a sombre hue Monday as MPs paid tribute to Liberal backbencher Arnold Chan, remembering him as a man of courage and humility who made a diff...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017
Trump at UN: 'America First' president arrives on premier internationalist stage
NEW YORK - This week the United Nations is hearing for the first time from a U.S. president who called the organization weak, incompetent, antithetical to freedom, anti-American and hostile to democra...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept. 18 --- TRUDEAU DELIVERS REBUKE TO BOEING: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is dropping the gloves in his fight with Boeing, saying his government won’...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017
Canada's Landmark Cinemas chain sold to Belgian firm for $123 million
CALGARY - Canada’s second-largest chain of movie theatres is being sold to a Belgian firm for about $123 million. Calgary-based Landmark Cinemas says a deal to be purchased by Kinepolis Group of...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017
Ottawa should pay for added Energy East pipeline regulatory costs: N.B. premier
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s premier says if Ottawa wants to change the rules of the regulatory process for the Energy East pipeline, it should pay the added costs. In an open letter to Prime M...
Kayla Derkach Sep 18, 2017

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