Category Archives: Canada
Infrastructure bank may avoid projects with too much financial risk, Sohi says
OTTAWA - The government’s new agency for financing major construction projects might take a pass on proposals that pose too great a risk for taxpayers when they’re asked to make a private ...
May 17, 2017
Quebec woman gone missing found alive one week later in Saskatchewan
Quebec provincial police say a young woman who went missing last week has been found alive in Saskatchewan. Police said today passersby contacted authorities after recognizing Karine Major on the stre...
May 17, 2017
Answers on Russia still far away as anti-doping agency meets
MONTREAL - The lurid details - dark-of-night swapping of tainted urine samples with clean ones through a hole cut into the wall - have been confirmed by an independent investigator who delivered a 144...
May 17, 2017
Tags still hanging from clothes lead police to alleged shoplifter
BARRIE, Ont. - Police in Barrie, Ont., say tags still hanging from a man’s clothes led to his arrest on theft-related charges. They say a store security guard noticed a man allegedly putting on ...
May 17, 2017
Man charged after pickup truck goes into automatic car wash with dog in back
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A man has been charged after a pickup truck went into an automatic car wash in Labrador with a dog exposed in the back. RCMP in Happy Valley-Goose Bay say they were call...
May 17, 2017
Calgary Police Service taps retired judge to review lethal use of force
CALGARY - The father of a man officers shot dead in a hotel room says his family would be keen to participate in an independent review into the use of lethal force by the Calgary Police Service. The p...
May 17, 2017
Saskatchewan to appeal school funding decision that it already plans to bypass
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says it will appeal a Court of Queen’s Bench ruling that says the province can’t provide Catholic schools funding for students who aren’t Catholi...
May 17, 2017
Winnipeg police arrest, charge men with killing Tina Fontaine's cousin
WINNIPEG - Police have charged three men in the killing of a cousin of Tina Fontaine, a teenager whose death fuelled calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Police in ...
May 17, 2017
Dumped Tory candidate squabbles with leader, is 'looking into' continuing her bid
HALIFAX - An ejected Tory candidate says she is looking into continuing her bid for public office, as she traded fresh barbs with the party’s leader about whether she faced a double standard whe...
May 17, 2017
Resolute U.S. racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace moved to California
TORONTO - A racketeering lawsuit launched by multinational forestry giant Resolute Forest Products against Greenpeace should be heard in California, an American court has ruled. Amid a ramped-up publi...
May 17, 2017
