Category Archives: Canada
Missing scuba diver found in mud at bottom of northern Alberta lake
ATHABASCA, Alta. - The body of a missing scuba diver has been found partially embedded in the mud at the bottom of a northern Alberta lake. RCMP Staff Sgt. Jeremie Landry says commercial divers were w...
Jul 16, 2017
Military's sexual misconduct call centre to go 24/7 despite staffing struggles
OTTAWA - The military’s sexual misconduct response centre is poised to make the long-awaited jump to round-the-clock service, despite what its new director admits have been struggles finding and...
Jul 16, 2017
'I've laid awake': Residents demand review as fears grow over Muskrat Falls dam
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A nagging dread is keeping Craig Chaulk up at night. He lives downstream from the $12.7-billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric development in Labrador. He’s among many resi...
Jul 16, 2017
Canadian debate over burning tires versus recycling reignites with N.S. proposal
BROOKFIELD, N.S. - Lydia Sorflaten flips through decade-old clippings showing how she and her neighbours stopped a nearby cement plant from burning tires at a kiln 500 metres from their tranquil Nova ...
Jul 16, 2017
Aging farmers, lack of succession plans put future of family farms at risk
Bryan Maynard says his grandfather, a Prince Edward Island potato farmer, didn’t start talking about retirement until he was 80 years old and had been diagnosed with dementia. At that point, wit...
Jul 16, 2017
Voters reject Quebec City-area Muslim cemetery project 19 to 16
SAINT-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - It was by the slimmest of margins that a plan to establish the Quebec City area’s first Muslim-owned and run cemetery was defeated in a referendum Sunday by a vote of 1...
Jul 16, 2017
Frequent failure of guards to obey use-of-force videotaping rules 'alarming':ombudsman
TORONTO - Federal prison guards are failing to comply with rules around videotaping their use of force against inmates in a majority of cases, according to data obtained by The Canadian Press. In the ...
Jul 16, 2017
Franklin exhibition in London features items from shipwreck, Inuit artifacts
When the Canadian Museum of History began planning a new exhibition on the Franklin expedition now showing in the United Kingdom, neither of the voyage’s two doomed ships had been found. But aft...
Jul 16, 2017
NAFTA, trade, cannabis on agenda as premiers meet in Edmonton this week
EDMONTON - Cross-border trade and the looming renegotiation of NAFTA top the agenda of the upcoming summer gathering of Canada’s premiers, says host Rachel Notley. Notley says the premiers will ...
Jul 16, 2017
Motivating private sector to hire military veterans still a struggle
CALGARY - A group that helps military veterans find jobs in the private sector says many former soldiers are struggling to find meaningful employment after serving their country. “There isn̵...
Jul 16, 2017
