Category Archives: Canada
WestJet orders longer-range Boeings as part of wider expansion plans
CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) has set out a plan to expand both internationally and into ultra-low cost offerings that has raised concerns from some analysts about being overly ambitious. ...
May 02, 2017
Man's death in New Brunswick prison preventable: correctional investigator
DORCHESTER, N.B. - The death of a man who was repeatedly pepper sprayed at a New Brunswick prison was preventable, Canada’s correctional investigator has found in a damning review that concludes...
May 02, 2017
Aftershocks still rumbling following 6.2 quake that jolted Yukon, northwest B.C.
WHITEHORSE - More than 100 aftershocks had shivered across the Alaska Panhandle, southern Yukon and parts of northwestern British Columbia by early Tuesday following two powerful earthquakes a day ear...
May 02, 2017
Commons committee calls for rollback of key C-51 anti-terror measures
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for repeal of a provision that allows Canada’s spy agency to violate constitutional rights, with a judge’s permission, in the name of disru...
May 02, 2017
Public security minister preaches patience as Quebec towns deal with flooding
MONTREAL - Quebec’s public security minister asked flood-stricken communities to be patient on Tuesday as forecasts called for more rain this week. Numerous Quebec municipalities that border str...
May 02, 2017
Canadian woman, American boyfriend found dead in Belize were strangled: police
Police in Belize were questioning “a few people” Wednesday in connection with the strangulation deaths of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend but no arrests have been made yet. The...
May 02, 2017
Student-on-student abuse in residential schools an 'unspoken truth': Sinclair
OTTAWA - The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls “student-on-student” abuse one untold story of Canada’s residential school legacy - an issue he says is ...
May 02, 2017
Ethics committee calls for expulsion of Sen. Don Meredith over sex with teen
OTTAWA - The Senate ethics committee has recommended that the upper house take the unprecedented step of expelling disgraced Sen. Don Meredith for engaging in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl...
May 02, 2017
N.S. pharmacist sanctioned for baking medical marijuana into cookies
HALIFAX - A pharmacist in Cape Breton has been fired and temporarily stripped of her licence for baking marijuana cookies for a patient and packaging them in a prescription bag. The Nova Scotia Colleg...
May 02, 2017
Canada to see some 'modest' gains from trade deal with Europe: budget watchdog
OTTAWA - Canada’s free-trade pact with Europe is poised to produce “modest” economic gains that work out to an average annual income boost of $220 per Canadian, the federal budget wa...
May 02, 2017
