Category Archives: Canada
B.C. Premier John Horgan says apology, other defences mitigate defamation suit
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he has made a “full and fair apology” for remarks about the province’s former liquefied natural gas advocate in reaction to a la...
Sep 11, 2017
Late Canadian poet laureate Pierre DesRuisseaux accused of plagiarism
MONTREAL - One of Canada’s former poet laureates is being accused of plagiarizing the works of illustrious English-language authors in a book that has since been taken off the shelves. U.K.-base...
Sep 11, 2017
Alberta RCMP swoop in to rescue great horned owl trapped in soccer net
AIRDRIE, Alta. - Alberta RCMP have added a feather to their cap by coming to the rescue of a great horned owl entangled in a school soccer net. Mounties in Airdrie, just north of Calgary, were waved d...
Sep 11, 2017
Trudeau targets Tories in gender equality remarks, saying they don't get it
TORONTO - The strongest opposition to including issues such as gender equality in discussions over the North American Free Trade Agreement has come not from the United States but from within Canada, P...
Sep 11, 2017
'Cannot be remedied:' Trucker gets 3 years for teen deaths in construction zone
MELFORT, Sask. - A judge who sent a truck driver to prison on Monday for speeding through a construction zone and killing three teenagers said no sentence can relieve the overwhelming pain felt by the...
Sep 11, 2017
Ottawa urged to release historic data on Inuit tuberculosis treatment
One of the country’s strongest international voices in the fight against AIDS says Canada owes the Inuit a full explanation of what happened to relatives removed from their homes to be treated f...
Sep 11, 2017
Delays in construction at Muskrat Falls impacting power bills in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Power customers will be getting some money back over the next three years as a result of the delays in completing the Nalcor-owned Muskrat Falls generating station in Newfoundlan...
Sep 11, 2017
Waterton residents on edge as growing wildfire threatens park's Alberta townsite
WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK, Alta. - Mandy Mulcahy and her fiance Dave Formosa were watching nervously for news as a wildfire spread closer to the Waterton Lakes National Park townsite in southwester...
Sep 11, 2017
Bid launched to rename N.S. river honouring contentious historical figure
KENTVILLE, N.S. - A debate sweeping the country over the naming of monuments and places after contentious historical figures has found a new flashpoint in rural Nova Scotia. A Scottish immigrant has l...
Sep 11, 2017
Winnipeg man pleads not guilty to letter-bomb charges, fights DNA evidence
WINNIPEG - A man accused of sending letter bombs in the mail, including one that cost his ex-wife’s lawyer her hand, pleaded not guilty Monday to five counts of attempted murder and to several e...
Sep 11, 2017
