Category Archives: Canada

Eight stories in the news for Thursday, June 22 --- SUSPECT IN MICHIGAN AIRPORT STABBING A CANADIAN: FBI U.S. authorities have charged a Quebec man in the stabbing of a security officer at an airport ...

TORONTO - Organizers of a graduation ceremony for black students at Canada’s largest university say the event is meant to acknowledge the barriers that remain for people of colour pursuing acade...

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec judge described a former high-performance Canadian ski coach as a sexual predator Thursday as he found him guilty of 37 charges related to the exploitation and sexual ass...

OTTAWA - Provincial subsidies to encourage the use of electric vehicles are the most expensive, least effective way to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Montreal Economic Institute says in a new ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s opposition parties accused Premier Christy Clark of adopting their policies and campaign promises Thursday in a last-ditch bid to hold onto power as her minority go...

REGINA - Weak commodity prices and higher government capital spending have prompted Standard and Poor’s to downgrade Saskatchewan’s credit rating. The agency says it has lowered the rating...

STRATHMORE, Alta. - Several teenagers face charges after someone rode a dirt bike through the halls of an Alberta school. RCMP in Strathmore, east of Calgary, say they were called to Holy Cross Colleg...

FLINT, Mich. - A Quebec man entered an airport in Michigan on Wednesday, yelled “Allahu akbar” and stabbed a security officer in the neck, according to U.S. federal prosecutors who said th...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Blaine Calkins wants the federal ethics watchdog to reconsider her decision to allow the former chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr to go work for a Calgary-...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, June 21 --- TRUDEAU RENAMES LANGEVIN BLOCK BUILDING: The federal government is renaming the Langevin Block building, which sits across from Parliament Hill...