Category Archives: Canada

Researchers say the ancestors of modern frogs had thousands of teeth - and fangs
TORONTO - Canadian researchers say they’ve found evidence that the ancient ancestors of modern-day frogs were once keen predators with thousands of teeth to help devour their prey. The team from...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Investment, defence and inequality: how federal politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - MPs aren’t officially back in Ottawa until next week, but politics in the dwindling days of the summer reprieve gave us some heavy hints about the season to come. As interest groups and...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 15 --- BAIL CONDITIONS FOR OMAR KHADR REVIEWED: Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr has been denied unsupervised visits with his controversial old...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Criminal past of front-runner Wab Kinew features in Manitoba NDP leadership race
WINNIPEG - Manitoba New Democrats will choose between two men Saturday to be the opposition party’s new leader - one faces questions about past criminal accusations and the other is a former cab...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Federal prison statistics highlight challenges for Trudeau government
OTTAWA - The number of Indigenous offenders in the federal correctional system has risen almost 40 per cent in the last decade, says a government report released Friday. It also says a lower percentag...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Canadian special forces out of Mosul, preparing for new battle in Iraq
OTTAWA - Canadian special forces have left the city of Mosul and are now backing up Iraqi forces as they prepare to assault one of the Islamic State group’s last strongholds in the country. The ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Privacy commissioner launches investigation into Equifax data breach
Canada’s privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the massive Equifax Inc. data breach after hearing from dozens of concerned Canadians as customers in the country have yet to be told whe...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Manitobans going home after fleeing forest fires more than two weeks ago
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Red Cross is assisting forest fire evacuees return to their homes on the Wasagamack First Nation in Manitoba. People from three First Nations communities in the Island Lake reg...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Court case over fired janitor prompts debate over meaning of 'Kafkaesque'
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has stepped in to answer a question that has puzzled some of the world’s most prominent thinkers: What exactly does Kafkaesque mean? In a new ruling, Justice ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017
Court case over fired janitor prompts debate over meaning of 'Kafkaesque'
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has stepped in to answer a question that has puzzled some of the world’s most prominent thinkers: What exactly does Kafkaesque mean? In a new ruling, Justice ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 15, 2017

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