Category Archives: Canada
Halifax medical student accused of murder was deeply in debt, trial told
HALIFAX - Medical student William Sandeson was deeply in debt and under pressure from his parents about his spending in the weeks before he allegedly murdered another student during a drug deal, a Hal...
May 24, 2017
Quebec's construction sector falls idle with mass walkout
MONTREAL - Quebec construction sites fell idle Wednesday after a union alliance representing about 175,000 workers launched an unlimited general strike, crippling activity on major projects such as th...
May 24, 2017
Five stories in the news today, May 24
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 24 --- TRUDEAU HEADS TO EUROPE FOR NATO, G7 SUMMITS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves today for Brussels for the NATO leaders’ summit, the first su...
May 24, 2017
Summer temperatures will be like 'whiplash', says meteorologist
TORONTO - Temperatures this summer are expected to feel like “whiplash,” and may swing between hot and cool over the course of the season, a top meteorologist says. The Weather Network rel...
May 24, 2017
PM in Brussels for NATO summit, where terrorism, cost of defence top agenda
BRUSSELS - The new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a massive, state-of-the-art facility that cost more than a billion euros to build - was designed to help the military allian...
May 24, 2017
Bank of Canada says uncertainty still clouds stronger growth, holds rate at 0.5%
OTTAWA - Uncertainties continue to obscure the economy’s stronger-than-expected start to the year, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it stuck with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per ce...
May 24, 2017
Security to be increased at Winnipeg's MTS Centre after Manchester bombing
WINNIPEG - Security is being enhanced at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre in the wake of the fatal bombing at an Ariana Grande show in Manchester, England. True North Sports and Entertainment will start by...
May 23, 2017
Grieving father says nine-year-old son slipped on rock and drowned
WINNIPEG - The father of a nine-year old Winnipeg boy who died in Ontario’s Rushing River Provincial Park this weekend says his son slipped on a rock and drowned. Trevor Thomas tells CTV Winnipe...
May 23, 2017
Canadian band Broken Social Scene plays Manchester show one day after attack
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene has played the first show of their European tour in Manchester. The performance comes a day after a suicide bombing at an Aria...
May 23, 2017
Parole Board of Canada says release revoked for Edmonton hostage taker
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The Parole Board of Canada says a man who took nine people hostage at gunpoint in Edmonton will remain in custody for breaching the conditions of his parole, including using methamp...
May 23, 2017
