Category Archives: Canada
Nine-year-old girl taken to hospital after drinking 'Unicorn Milk' vaping fluid
FREDERICTON - A nine-year-old New Brunswick girl was taken to hospital after consuming e-cigarette fluids from a brightly labelled “Unicorn Milk” bottle, her mother says. Lea L’Hoir ...
May 31, 2017
Verdict expected Thursday for engineer charged in Ontario mall roof collapse
A discredited former engineer who signed off on the health of a northern Ontario mall just weeks before it collapsed in June 2012 finds out Thursday if he bears any criminal responsibility for the two...
May 31, 2017
Players on hand as Canada Post commemorates Canada-USSR hockey showdown
WINNIPEG - The most famous goal scored in Canadian hockey history is now featured on a stamp. Canada Post unveiled a stamp Wednesday showing Paul Henderson - arms in the air, hugged by Yvan Cournoyer ...
May 31, 2017
Police in Ontario turning to Facebook in an effort to get leads in cold cases
Police are turning to social media in an effort to generate leads in unsolved homicides and missing person’s cases in central Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police and local police say four people ...
May 31, 2017
Transportation Safety Board to release final report into Leviathan II capsize
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board’s final report into the deadly capsizing of a whale-watching vessel off Vancouver Island is expected to be released next month. An email from the boar...
May 31, 2017
Landmark deal in RCMP sexual-harassment class action wins court approval
TORONTO - An unprecedented settlement that will pay up to $220,000 to women who were sexually harassed while working for the RCMP over the past 40 years has been approved by a Federal Court judge, who...
May 31, 2017
Upset son of recent suspected murder victim interrupts inquiry hearings
WHITEHORSE - The distraught son of Wendy Carlick, an advocate for missing and murdered indigenous women who was found dead weeks ago, interrupted the national inquiry on Wednesday to share his grief. ...
May 31, 2017
First Nations leaders call for RCMP to probe recent Thunder Bay teen deaths
TORONTO - Deep distrust of police in a northwestern Ontario city has prompted area indigenous chiefs to ask for the RCMP to investigate the recent deaths of teens in the community. Three chiefs travel...
May 31, 2017
Feds still committed to Paris Accord, Environment Minister McKenna says
TORONTO - As the U.S. flirts with fleeing the Paris climate-change accord, Canada is aligning itself with the world’s other two largest economies to take a global leadership role in the effort t...
May 31, 2017
Documents raise new questions about taxpayer risk in Liberal infrastructure bank
OTTAWA - Federal investments doled out through the government’s new infrastructure financing agency may be used to ensure a financial return to private investors if a project fails to generate e...
May 31, 2017
