Category Archives: Canada
Families say missing, murdered women inquiry a failure; call for 'hard reset.'
REGINA - The families of missing and murdered Indigenous women say a national inquiry has already failed and are calling for “a hard reset” on the process. Many made emotional pleas Wednes...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017

Saskatoon pastor offers spiritual advice, fruit punch at roadside stand
SASKATOON - A Saskatoon pastor is taking a page out of Charles Schultz's classic "Peanuts" comic strip by offering spiritual advice and a glass of fruit punch at a roadside stand in his neighbourhood....
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017

Police say no suspects in 'random' homicide of 13-year-old girl at Burnaby park
BURNABY, B.C. - The homicide of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a suburban Vancouver park involved a random attack, police say. Cpl. Meghan Foster of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said W...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017
Canada, U.S. heading in opposite directions as Trump says 'No' to trans troops
OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces says it is pressing ahead with improvements to its transgender policy, even as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to bar transgender people from military service south of t...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017

N.S. art gallery dealt major blow as board rejects bulk of Leibovitz collection
HALIFAX - It was an enormous coup for a small art gallery, scoring 2,070 photos by famed American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. But the donation of the multi-million-dollar collection to the ...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017
What was said about top court rulings on digenous consultations
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that the National Energy Board can fulfil the Crown’s duty to consult Indigenous communities about development projects but it must be done p...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017
Former Quebec cabinet minister Jacques Daoust suffers stroke
MONTREAL - The son of former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust says his father is in stable condition after suffering a stroke. Sebastien Daoust says his father is in hospital in the Mont...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017

The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, July 26 --- COURT QUASHES SEISMIC TESTING AT CLYDE RIVER: The Inuit Hamlet of Clyde River won a nearly six-year battle Wednesday to stop seismic testing in...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017
Still no arrest in decade-old disappearance, slaying of Cedrika Provencher
MONTREAL - It has been a decade since his granddaughter’s disappearance and eventual slaying, but the wounds are still fresh for Henri Provencher. Cedrika Provencher, a nine-year-old freckle-fac...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017
Liberals can afford to spend $8 billion a year on daycare program, IMF says
OTTAWA - International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8 billion annually to reduce the cost of child care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for...
Kayla Derkach Jul 26, 2017

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