Category Archives: Canada

Police issue 99 trespass citations during pipeline protest on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s conflicting climate and pipeline policies were thrown into sharp relief Monday as more than 200 protesters marched on Parliament Hill demanding Prime Minister J...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016

Family of murdered B.C. girl reacts to news of killer's prison pregnancy
VICTORIA - Family members of a teenage girl who was viciously beaten and drowned on Vancouver Island nearly two decades ago say they wish their relative’s killer well after a news report that sh...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
Tory leadership hopeful Blaney aims to stem 'erosion' of Canadian values
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Steven Blaney says he would introduce a bill calling for Canadians to have to show their face when they vote or take the oath of citizenship. In his first po...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016

Feathered dinosaurs may have 'flocked' together like modern birds: study
EDMONTON - An ancient bone bed in a remote Mongolian desert presents tantalizing clues that dinosaurs of a feather may have flocked together for the same reasons modern birds do. “We’re st...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
RCMP shut key Labrador road as protest grows over Muskrat Falls megaproject
MUSKRAT FALLS, N.L. - Protesters who broke into the sprawling Muskrat Falls construction site are risking serious injury, the CEO of the Crown corporation in charge of the megaproject said Monday as R...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
Campaign targets sport specialization: 'Parents get caught up in peer pressure'
HALIFAX - Parents are being warned about the dangers of early specialization in sport, in a new campaign that says overfocusing on one-sport skills may burn out younger athletes. Carolyn Townsend, com...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
Expat voting ban legit, Liberal government argues despite promised change
TORONTO - Allowing long-term Canadian expats to vote in federal elections is not a Constitutional requirement but a policy decision that Parliament has the right to make, the government plans to tell ...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
Why a single piece of evidence mattered so much in Dennis Oland murder case
From the earliest days in Dennis Oland’s murder trial, the Crown faced an uphill battle to convince jurors that a precarious balance of circumstantial evidence added up to a guilty verdict. None...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016
Online literacy test for Ontario students cancelled due to cyberattack: EQAO
TORONTO - The Ontario agency tasked with administering the first online literacy test to tens of thousands of high school students in the province last week says it was forced to pull the plug by an &...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016

RBI CEO says plans to expand Tim Hortons abroad unfazed by geopolitics
TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons said Monday he plans to keep pushing with an international expansion of the coffee-and-doughnut chain despite softness in the quick-service resta...
Kayla Derkach Oct 24, 2016

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