Category Archives: Canada
Sheep on Canada Day parade float prompts complaints from social media users
WINDSOR, Ont. - A southern Ontario man says he plans to keep using live sheep in his floats, despite receiving numerous complaints following two parades on Canada Day. Dave Szusz is the publisher of t...
Jul 05, 2017
Next Supreme Court chief justice should come from Quebec: Montreal bar
MONTREAL - The Montreal bar is calling on tradition to be respected and for the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to be a Quebecer. Bar president Brian Mitchell says the law society se...
Jul 05, 2017
Quebec man indicted in officer's stabbing at Flint, Mich., airport
FLINT, Mich. - A Tunisia native who lives in Quebec repeated the Arabic phrase for “God is great” prior to his arraignment Wednesday in the stabbing of a police officer at an airport in Fl...
Jul 05, 2017
Vancouver condo market heats up while detached home sales cool: board
Vancouver’s housing sales have divided into two separate markets with condominium’s being snatched up while detached homes remain on the market longer. Figures released Wednesday by the Re...
Jul 05, 2017
New Brunswick dog finds lost cat in storm drain, is hailed as hero
SACKVILLE, N.B. - A New Brunswick cat who had been missing for six weeks had an unlikely saviour: A dog. Shelly Colette was walking her dog Cash a few weeks ago in Sackville, N.B., when the black bord...
Jul 05, 2017
Canada needs to explain balance between UN treaties, legal cannabis: experts
OTTAWA - Opposition parties and legal experts are urging the Liberal government to be clear on how it plans to handle the legalization of cannabis while Canada remains party to three UN treaties that ...
Jul 05, 2017
Suspect in Saskatchewan Amber Alert previously charged with abduction
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The parents of an eight-year-old girl allegedly abducted from a Saskatchewan playground say their daughter is doing well. Her father said on social media police found her “...
Jul 05, 2017
Three men charged in Toronto shooting of pregnant woman, boyfriend
TORONTO - Police have arrested three men in connection with an apartment shooting that left a pregnant woman and her boyfriend with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. Toronto police say the t...
Jul 05, 2017
Molson Coors plans to spend up to $500 million to build new Montreal brewery
MONTREAL - A tract of waterfront land at the edge of Old Montreal will undergo a transformation after Molson Coors announced plans to spend up to $500 million to build a new brewery in the city instea...
Jul 05, 2017
Flag that flew on Parliament Hill on Canada Day gifted to Queen
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked Canada’s 150th birthday with the Queen Wednesday by giving her the Canadian flag that flew on the Peace Tower on Canada Day. On a daylo...
Jul 05, 2017
