Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 30 --- AIR TRANSAT PASSENGERS TELL HARROWING TALES AT HEARING: Passengers trapped aboard two Air Transat jets described hours on end of sweltering hea...

TORONTO - A Canadian-led international research team is using a “barcoding” system to investigate the growth patterns of individual cells that make up the deadliest form of brain cancer, w...

CALGARY - Three senior members of the Calgary Police Service have been charged with kidnapping and assaulting a man they believed had information in the 2010 case of an at-risk female youth who they t...

MONTREAL - A disgruntled B.C. bride has filed a national class-action lawsuit against Air Transat for ruining her wedding by allegedly misrepresenting flights as non-stop. Vancouver law firm Rosenberg...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman solely for thrills has admitted to being an accessory to the murder of another young woman. Thomas Ted Barrett pleaded guilt...

BEAUMONT, Alta. - Shiva Kumar Shunmugam was wrapping up a lazy summer afternoon tending to social media feeds for the Alberta town of Beaumont when a strange request came into the fire hall’s Fa...

TORONTO - A Toronto neurosurgeon charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife has been denied bail. Dr. Mohammed Shamji, 41, showed little emotion as he sat in a Toronto courtroom on Wedn...

TORONTO - Pundits say they’re taken aback both by Margaret Atwood’s public opposition to a modest condo development planned for her upscale Toronto neighbourhood and the vehement social me...

VICTORIA - The lawyer for a First Nation chief in British Columbia says his client will “vehemently defend” himself against a charge of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16....

TORONTO - Math test scores among public elementary school students in Ontario have not improved - in some cases they have decreased slightly - despite a $60-million “renewed math strategy”...