Category Archives: Canada
Event cancelled after students reportedly encouraged to perform lewd acts
OTTAWA - An event that reportedly saw students at the University of Ottawa encouraged to perform lewd acts in exchange for points has been cancelled indefinitely as organizers apologized to anyone who...
Oct 18, 2016
Some diesel fuel safely pumped from sunken tug on B.C. central coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Salvage crews have removed more than 88,000 litres of diesel from a sunken tug on British Columbia’s central coast in the latest effort to avert an environmental disaster nea...
Oct 18, 2016
Advocates for native or minority Supreme Court judge disappointed by PM's choice
HALIFAX - The Liberal government may have made history by nominating a Newfoundlander to Canada’s top court - but disappointed advocates say a more critical opportunity has been missed to add ra...
Oct 18, 2016
Six stories in the news today, Oct. 18
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 18 --- OTTAWA PREPARES TO DISCUSS HEALTH SPENDING Health Minister Jane Philpott faces a tough discussion with her provincial and territorial counterparts toda...
Oct 18, 2016
Belgium still holding up EU approval of Canada trade deal
LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations failed to endorse a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday, but remain optimistic they can do so by next week, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau i...
Oct 18, 2016
What if Trump never concedes the election: 'Rigged' talk raises vexing scenario
WASHINGTON - Scolded by his own party, slammed by the president as a whiner and censured by the chattering classes as a threat to American democracy, Donald Trump stuck to his guns Tuesday and insiste...
Oct 18, 2016
Provinces, territories push against idea health funding not going to health care
TORONTO - Health Minister Jane Philpott offered an apology of sorts to her provincial and territorial counterparts Tuesday after some of them pushed back against her argument that federal health dolla...
Oct 18, 2016
Dennis Oland's lawyer says 'mistake' about jacket not a sign of guilt
FREDERICTON - Dennis Oland’s lawyer says the Crown used speculation that was not backed by evidence to get a conviction of second-degree murder in the killing of Oland’s multi-millionaire ...
Oct 18, 2016
RCMP arrest man who rammed gate at rural Alberta airport, drove onto runway
EDSON, Alta. - RCMP say a man being pursued by Mounties forced the closure of a small airport in Edson, Alta., after he drove through a security gate and onto a runway before his pickup truck caught f...
Oct 17, 2016
Remaining sex assault charges against Canadian man dropped in Colorado
DENVER - Officials in Denver, Colo., say sexual assault charges against a British Columbia man have been dropped. The Denver District Attorney’s Office says in a release that two charges against...
Oct 17, 2016
