Category Archives: Canada

Subway files defamation suit against CBC over reports
TORONTO - Subway has filed a defamation lawsuit against the CBC over reports the sandwich chain alleges have caused it to suffer significant sales losses. In a statement of claim filed with a Toronto ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017
Teen pleads guilty in Quebec school plot and will remain detained
SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. - One of two Quebec teens charged in an alleged plot to kill fellow classmates pleaded guilty Tuesday. The 14-year-old will remain detained pending sentencing arguments set for M...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault: 'amazing' how far we have come on LGBTQ2 rights
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault said his time at the University of Oxford taught him the importance of staying on top of a busy schedule. There as a Rhodes Scholar studying philosophy, politics...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017
Slow-learning bees as successful as smart ones, and live longer: Study
Slow-learning bumblebees are just as successful as smart ones and live longer, suggests a new study that researchers say calls into question the assumption that brain superiority is better in the bele...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

Canadian envoy fires back at Trump over dairy, says criticism not based on facts
OTTAWA - Canada’s envoy to Washington has shot back at criticism by President Donald Trump and U.S. milk producers, saying the facts don’t support a charge that the Canadian dairy industry...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

Trial hears woman's body buried in home mummified in mixture of cat litter, salt
CALGARY - The Crown says a man accused of killing his wife confessed to undercover officers that he strangled her and buried her body in the basement of the home they shared with their two children. T...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

Not guilty pleas entered for two accused men in B.C. polygamy trial
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The leader of a fundamentalist sect that condones plural marriage stood silently in a British Columbia courtroom Tuesday, hands clasped in front of a pressed black suit, as a B.C. Su...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

New Brunswick First Nations set to banish drug dealers following overdose death
FREDERICTON - There is a growing movement on New Brunswick’s First Nations to banish drug dealers, as mourners said farewell this week to a woman who died of a drug overdose. Leo Bartibogue, an ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017
Fraud trial underway for former director of Quebec provincial police
MONTREAL - A fraud trial is underway in Montreal for the ex-director of the Quebec provincial police and two other former senior officers. The three are charged with fraud, theft and breach of trust. ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

Bank of Canada warns workforce automation could intensify income inequality
OTTAWA - A senior Bank of Canada official says while the country’s poised to reap economic benefits from technological progress - it must also brace for potentially painful side effects like job...
Kayla Derkach Apr 18, 2017

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