Category Archives: Canada
B.C. party leaders slamming opponents' spending promises on campaign trail
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s party leaders levelled criticism at each other’s spending promises as they spent Good Friday campaigning. Liberal leader Christy Clark started the day campai...
Apr 14, 2017
Missing Olympian under investigation turns himself in to Victoria police
Victoria police say an investment dealer and former Canadian Olympic rower who had been missing for nearly a year and a half has turned himself in. Harold Backer disappeared on Nov. 3, 2015 when he fa...
Apr 14, 2017
Pot, power and unreliable growth: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - She inspired. She joked. She drew tears to their eyes. Malala Yousafzai, the passionate 19-year-old who was shot by the Taliban on her way home from school in Pakistan five years ago, brought...
Apr 14, 2017
HIV/AIDS researcher Mark Wainberg saved millions of lives, funeral hears
MONTREAL - Dr Mark Wainberg was remembered during his funeral on Friday as a trailblazing HIV researcher and patient advocate who was equally dedicated to his family, his Montreal community, and frien...
Apr 14, 2017
Five things to know about the fight over how things work on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals want to act on their ambitious legislative mandate, but they also hope to avoid looking like bullies when they do. As they retreat to their ridings for the next two days,...
Apr 14, 2017
Man sues elevator company over mishap in condo; says he hurt leg in fall
TORONTO - A retiree who says he hurt his leg after tumbling from a malfunctioning elevator in his downtown condominium is suing one of the world’s largest elevator companies for negligence. In h...
Apr 14, 2017
Canada announces sanctions on 27 top Syrian officials in effort to pressure Assad
OTTAWA - Canada has announced sanctions against 27 high-ranking officials in the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says in a statement that those ...
Apr 14, 2017
TV host Jimmy Kimmel jokes about legal marijuana in Canada
Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel had a bit of fun Thursday night with the news that the Canadian government has introduced legislation to legalize recreational marijuana. In his monologue, the host of ...
Apr 14, 2017
Inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women delays regional meetings
OTTAWA - The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has delayed upcoming regional advisory meetings. The decision comes a week after families and advocacy groups said th...
Apr 13, 2017
Leon the Frog's story restored in stairwell at University of Calgary
CALGARY - A poem that was written on a University of Calgary stairwell as an act of rebellion in the 1970s has been restored after accidentally being painted over. He is one little frog, but he looms ...
Apr 13, 2017
