Category Archives: Canada
Tragically Hip documentary makers say tour film 'started on a dime'
TORONTO - Making the Tragically Hip tour documentary “Long Time Running” was a shotgun project of sorts for its filmmakers. “It started on a dime,” explained co-director Nichol...
Sep 13, 2017
World Wildlife Fund survey indicates many Canadian species declining
An extensive survey of Canadian birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians over more than four decades has found that half of them are in serious population decline. Here are a few findings from th...
Sep 13, 2017
'Exceptionally serious:' Report says half of Canadian wildlife declining
An extensive survey of 903 species of Canadian birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians over more than four decades has found that half of them are in serious population decline. Declining specie...
Sep 13, 2017
University of Calgary researchers looking for meteor fragments in B.C.
CALGARY - A University of Calgary researcher is asking for the public’s help in locating pieces of a meteor that lit up the sky before crashing to earth in southeastern British Columbia on Labou...
Sep 13, 2017
Appeal filed in B.C. child-bride case by member of polygamous sect
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A British Columbia woman wants her conviction overturned after she was sentenced to seven months in jail for taking a 13-year-old girl to the United States to marry the leader of a p...
Sep 13, 2017
Military says investigation will determine cause of grass fire on CFB Suffield
CFB SUFFIELD, Alta. - The military says it is investigating whether soldiers who were training sparked a grass fire in southeastern Alberta that torched a ranch, forced an evacuation and burned more t...
Sep 13, 2017
Healthy evacuees can return to home on Saskatchewan First Nation; smoke remains
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan First Nation lifted an evacuation order Wednesday, allowing some people to return to their homes that had been threatened by forest fires. Chief Peter Beatty of t...
Sep 13, 2017
Imam says he was told school tragedy in Saskatoon happened in seconds
SASKATOON - An imam who was called to a Saskatoon school after a kindergarten student died says the Muslim boy’s attendant told him the tragedy happened in seconds. Ilyas Sidyot, the imam of the...
Sep 13, 2017
Northern Ireland enters fight to defend Bombardier in dispute with Boeing
MONTREAL - The United Kingdom is allying itself with Canada in the fight to persuade U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing to abandon its complaint against Bombardier regarding the CSeries. Days after a p...
Sep 13, 2017
B.C. state of emergency to be lifted as wildfire season winds down: official
CASTLEGAR, B.C. - An official says British Columbia’s provincial state of emergency is expected to be lifted soon as the record-breaking wildfire season begins to wind down. Chris Duffy with Eme...
Sep 13, 2017
