Category Archives: Canada
Economic growth blows past expectations in May, powered by energy industry
OTTAWA - Economic growth in the country blew past expectations in May, powered by the energy sector, posting the fastest expansion on an annual basis since October 2000 and raising expectations the Ba...
Jul 28, 2017
RCMP to view investigation of death of woman who plunged down hotel chute
REGINA - The RCMP is now reviewing the Regina police department’s investigation into the death of a 29-year-old who plunged 10 storeys down a hotel laundry chute. Regina police spokeswoman Eliza...
Jul 28, 2017
Banff's Bear 148 tries beary hard to live and let live, but future uncertain
BANFF, Alta. - Her future is cloudy. When grizzlies mix too freely with people, the grizzlies usually lose. And after dozens of encounters with humans, Bear 148 may be shambling perilously close to th...
Jul 28, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, July 28
Six stories in the news for Friday, July 28 --- PEARSON AIRPORT GROUND CREWS ON STRIKE About 700 ground crew workers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport are on strike after rejecting a co...
Jul 28, 2017
Lender risk sharing could exacerbate a housing downturn, fed draft report says
TORONTO - A federal proposal to have lenders shoulder more of the risk for potential mortgage defaults could dampen lending or intensify a decline in house prices, according to internal documents from...
Jul 28, 2017
Oilsands developers abandon nearly one million hectares of exploration leases
CALGARY - In another sign the bloom is off the boom for the oilsands, the industry has returned almost one million hectares of northern Alberta exploration leases to the province over the past two yea...
Jul 28, 2017
RCMP release man who had been taken in what was called `significant' arrest
GODS LAKE NARROWS, Man. - One day after arresting a man in the 2013 death of a girl who was brutally slain and left on a snowy trail in Gods Lake Narrows, Man., RCMP have released him without charges....
Jul 27, 2017
Ottawa man arrested in two homicide cases
Ottawa police say they have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of two men on Monday. Alam Gabriel Buoc have been the subject of a nationwide warrant until his arrest on Thursday night. The 30-y...
Jul 27, 2017
Federal government announces plan to protect caribou after legal action taken
OTTAWA - The federal government has come up with a proposed plan to protect Canada’s threatened boreal caribou population, three months after a wildlife conservation group took the environment m...
Jul 27, 2017
B.C. man, leader of drug smuggling ring to serve 13 years in U.S. prison
SEATTLE - A British Columbia man convicted of leading a cocaine and ecstasy smuggling ring has been sentenced to 13 year in a U.S. prison. U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes says Kevin Kerfoot, 53, of Surrey...
Jul 27, 2017
