Category Archives: Canada
Omar Khadr's criminal record in Canada shows 'absolute ignorance':lawyer
TORONTO - Omar Khadr’s official criminal record in Canada contains oddities and errors that are at odds with how the federal government viewed him on his return from the notorious prison on the ...
Apr 17, 2017
Overbooking called 'an egregious and deliberate form of breach of contract'
CHARLOTTETOWN - The public outcry over the contentious airline practice of overbooking flights has found a new target in Atlantic Canada, where a 10-year-old P.E.I. boy was bumped from an Air Canada f...
Apr 17, 2017
Toronto Mayor John Tory lays out three priorities heading into housing meeting
TORONTO - Mayor John Tory says he plans to discuss Toronto’s lagging rental supply, a vacant property tax and the lack of real estate data when he meets Tuesday with the federal and Ontario fina...
Apr 17, 2017
No plan for pot-conviction amnesty amid legalization move, Liberals say
OTTAWA - The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. Newly tabl...
Apr 17, 2017
Main parties campaign on health care, jobs at start of Week 2 of B.C. election
BURNABY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader John Horgan took aim on Monday at the Liberals’ failed pledge to match every British Columbian with a family doctor by promoting his party’s strategy to...
Apr 17, 2017
Ranchers watch lone beaver herd curious cattle on Saskatchewan pasture
ITUNA, Sask. - It’s about as Canadian as a cattle drive can get. Ranchers northeast of Regina are shaking their heads after watching a herd of curious bovines slowly follow a beaver across one o...
Apr 17, 2017
Canadian glacier melt rerouted in rare case of 'river piracy,' scientists say
WASHINGTON - Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call “river piracy” and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Can...
Apr 17, 2017
Rising ice, flood waters force Manitobans from homes: Canadian Red Cross
THE PAS, Man. - Rising ice and flood waters have forced hundreds of people from their homes in Manitoba. Jason Small of the Canadian Red Cross says 107 people from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation are being...
Apr 17, 2017
U.S. customs officials release photo of mock IED found at Toronto airport
TORONTO - U.S. customs officials have released a photo of a mock improvised explosive device that led to delays at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport when it was found in a passenger’...
Apr 17, 2017
Towering iceberg causes Newfoundland traffic jam as onlookers flock for glimpse
FERRYLAND, N.L. - A towering iceberg stationed off Newfoundland’s east coast is drawing hundreds of people to the small town sitting in its shadow. Ferryland Mayor Adrian Kavanagh said Monday it...
Apr 17, 2017
