Category Archives: Canada
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
Chess federation fuming over treatment of Canadian grandmaster at World Cup
MONTREAL - Canada’s chess federation says it has filed a formal complaint over the treatment of a Canadian grandmaster at a signature event just minutes before he was to play one of the biggest ...
Sep 11, 2017
Aides to Ontario ex-premier McGuinty plead not guilty in gas plants scandal
TORONTO - Two top political aides to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty pleaded not guilty Monday to charges over the destruction of internal emails about the Liberal government’s costly can...
Sep 11, 2017
Bank of Canada defends itself for staying silent before interest rate hike
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is defending itself amid questions about its public silence ahead of an interest-rate increase last week that caught many analysts by surprise. The response came after BMO ...
Sep 11, 2017
Feds say lack of airstrips, infrastructure slowed hurricane evacuations
OTTAWA - Federal ministers expressed sympathy Monday for the hundreds of Canadians affected by Hurricane Irma as well as their worried families back home, even as they sought to explain why more wasn&...
Sep 11, 2017
Russian cyclists file suit against anti-doping agency and Canadian investigator
TORONTO - Three Russian cyclists filed a lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court on Monday against the World Anti-Doping Agency and Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, claiming they were unfairly implicated in...
Sep 11, 2017
Daycare worker charged with sexually assaulting child at Halifax centre
HALIFAX - A Halifax daycare provider says it is trying to reassure parents after one of its employees was charged with sexually assaulting a young child on the job. Police say they were told on the ev...
Sep 11, 2017
Canadians barred from Turks and Caicos flight allowed to return home
TORONTO - Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home. Hurricane Irma caused extensive flooding ...
Sep 11, 2017
