Category Archives: Canada
Back-to-school stationery a distraction for some in the classroom
TORONTO - Post-it notes with emojis. Locker magnets shaped like pizza and poop. Pencil boxes featuring T.rex. These are some of the many back-to-school items currently sitting on the shelves of a Walm...
Sep 03, 2017
Tories send Liberals a NAFTA olive branch, with strings attached
OTTAWA - Attack mode, says the Conservative Party’s new foreign affairs critic, will not be the opposition’s first instinct when dealing with the Liberal government’s renegotiation o...
Sep 03, 2017
Drug users say methadone formula switch contributed to B.C.'s opioid crisis
VANCOUVER - Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated treatment drug they say has...
Sep 03, 2017
B.C. failed to reduce wildfire risk, despite warning, communities say
VANCOUVER - The fire in Logan Lake started like so many others in British Columbia’s worst wildfire season on record - a smouldering campfire, not fully extinguished, sparked flames that spread ...
Sep 03, 2017
Storm-battered Quebec towns preparing for effects of changing climate
MONTREAL - The windswept archipelago of Iles-de-la-Madeleine used to spend most of every winter firmly encased in the ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, protected from the worst effects of winter storms...
Sep 03, 2017
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $13 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $13 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackp...
Sep 02, 2017
N.S. golf club members rally to maintain links amid ownership uncertainty
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. - The ownership of a Nova Scotia golf club appears in limbo, but members of the facility said they’re pulling together to keep the 18 hole course running until its fate bec...
Sep 02, 2017
Smoke prompts officials in northern Manitoba to evacuate another 1,500
WINNIPEG - Smoke from a northern Manitoba wildfire has prompted officials with the Garden Hill First Nation to move another 1,500 people to Winnipeg. Jason Small with the Red Cross says the evacuation...
Sep 02, 2017
Wildfires in southeast B.C. forces evacuation of hundreds of properties
CRANBROOK, B.C. - More people are being forced from their homes in a community in southeastern B.C. this weekend due to out-of-control wildfires. The BC Wildfire Service says the blaze, which started ...
Sep 02, 2017
Jerome Choquette, Quebec justice minister during October crisis, dead at 89
MONTREAL - Former Quebec justice minister Jerome Choquette, who helped navigate the province through the October Crisis, has died at the age of 89. His former press secretary Jean-Claude Gobe said Cho...
Sep 02, 2017
