Category Archives: Canada
Celebrity great white shark signals he's still off Nova Scotia coast
HALIFAX - Hilton, a celebrity shark whose travels have captivated Nova Scotians, has extended his summer vacation off the province’s coast. The 600-kilogram great white - tagged by the research ...
Sep 08, 2017
Child psychiatrist sentenced in Australia for filming boy in Edmonton bathroom
PERTH, Australia - An Australian child psychiatrist has avoided jail for child pornography offences that took place around the globe, including a bathroom at West Edmonton Mall. News outlets in Austra...
Sep 08, 2017
The concept of full employment, and what it means for wages, explained
The unemployment rate ticked down to a nine year low of 6.2 per cent in August, approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.” So what is full employment? It’s the lowest...
Sep 08, 2017
Crews struggle with southeastern B.C. wildfires as conditions ease elsewhere
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The unprecedented, aggressive behaviour of three blazes in southeastern British Columbia has forced firefighting crews to withdraw from the area, the BC Wildfire Service said on Frid...
Sep 08, 2017
Energy East pause puts Liberal argument on environment and pipelines in question
OTTAWA - Federal government policies tying environmental impacts to regulatory approval of pipelines are sending investors fleeing for more certain ground, critics and pipeline proponents said Friday....
Sep 08, 2017
Conservatives contemplate Quebec byelection, impact of NDP leadership
WINNIPEG - Federal Conservatives emerged Friday from two days of meetings, upbeat about the task ahead of holding the Liberals to account and strengthening their own party. The work begins in earnest ...
Sep 08, 2017
Radiohead 'appalled' by staying of charges in fatal stage collapse case
The members of Radiohead say they are “appalled” that charges stemming from a fatal concert stage collapse in Toronto in 2012 were stayed. On Tuesday, a judge ruled the justice system had ...
Sep 08, 2017
Man charged in slaying of store clerk in Montreal was rebuffed by victim: Crown
MONTREAL - Less than a week after being rebuffed by a girl he’d asked out, the man on trial in her slaying returned to a Montreal big box store and fatally stabbed her 14 times in April 2016, th...
Sep 08, 2017
Exercise rider dies after training accident at Woodbine Racetrack
TORONTO - Darren Fortune, a longtime rider at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack, was remembered Friday as a thoughtful, hard-working individual who had a passion for working with horses. Fortune died...
Sep 08, 2017
Supreme Court restores extradition orders in B.C. 'honour killing' case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the path for extradition of two B.C. residents to India to face murder charges in the so-called honour killing of a young woman. In a 9-0 judgment Frid...
Sep 08, 2017
