Category Archives: Canada
Calgary police dog stabbed in the line of duty, suspect in custody
CALGARY - A youth accused of stabbing a Calgary police dog during an arrest faces charges under a new section of the criminal code that protects law enforcement animals. Acting Staff Sgt. James Lines ...
Jul 30, 2017
Workers, advocates call for changes to Temporary Foreign Worker program
MONTREAL - Henry Aguirre, a temporary foreign worker from Guatemala, considered himself lucky when he got a job in Quebec as a chicken catcher, rounding up poultry and handing them over for processing...
Jul 30, 2017
'Skeletons can tell you a lot.' Exhuming remains at 18th-century fort
LOUISBURG, N.S. - The former residents of a massive 18th-century fort in Cape Breton have long since died, but David Ebert says they still have plenty to tell us. Ebert, a strategic adviser with Parks...
Jul 30, 2017
Ontario First Nation resident seeks long-promised air pollution review
A resident of a southern Ontario First Nation surrounded by industrial facilities is taking the provincial government to court to demand it complete an air quality review promised eight years ago. Ada...
Jul 30, 2017
Employee who pushed and ejected man from Canadian Tire no longer with company
REGINA - A Canadian Tire staff member who physically removed an Indigenous man from a store in Regina is no longer with the company, a spokesperson said Sunday. Kamao Cappo of the Muscowpetung First N...
Jul 30, 2017
First Nations in B.C. call for more control over firefighting, federal funding
VANCOUVER - First Nations in the path of British Columbia’s forests fires say to protect their communities they need equal funding and recognition of their expertise that is granted to other eme...
Jul 30, 2017
Group says long-awaited high Arctic research station is nearly complete
A decade after it was first promised, Canada’s new High Arctic Research Station is nearly complete and already giving scientists access to a vast new section of ice and tundra. “We’r...
Jul 30, 2017
A year in the sun: N.W.T. community's solar experiment a success
COLVILLE LAKE, N.W.T. - A year after his tiny Arctic community became a test case for solar power in the North, it’s the sounds that Alvin Orlias notices. “I’m standing outside right...
Jul 30, 2017
Trudeau says he will visit B.C. wildfire zones amid shifting landscape
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Crews fighting wildfires across British Columbia are once again preparing for challenges brought on by sweltering, windy weather as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to see fir...
Jul 30, 2017
Two winning tickets share Saturday night's $10 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - There are two winning tickets for the nearly $10 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. One was purchased in Ontario and the other in the Prairies, and each is worth just ...
Jul 29, 2017
