Category Archives: Canada
Yukon MLA asks Ottawa to press U.S. to live up to Alaska Highway funding deal
HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon - A Yukon member of the legislature wants the federal government to press the United States to live up to a decades-old agreement to help pay for repairs to the Alaska Highway. ...
Mar 31, 2017
Manitoba Mountie with seven years service accused of abusing his children
WINNIPEG - Charges have been laid against a Manitoba RCMP officer who is accused of abusing his children. The RCMP says the abuse allegedly occurred between 2010 and 2016. Charges of assault and assau...
Mar 31, 2017
McDonald's Canada says info of 95,000 job applicants compromised
TORONTO - McDonald’s Canada says the jobs section of its website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the last three years. The company said Fri...
Mar 31, 2017
List of public workers making over $100K in Ontario grows; top earner made $1.2M
TORONTO - The CEO of Ontario Power Generation earned nearly $1.2 million last year, making him the highest-paid public-sector employee in the province on a growing list of those earning $100,000 or mo...
Mar 31, 2017
Yukon doctor says drug used to boost blood flow shows promise treating frostbite
WHITEHORSE - A doctor in Yukon says a new way to treat frostbite is turning Whitehorse General Hospital into a leading treatment centre for the injury. Surgeon Alex Poole uses the traditional rewarmin...
Mar 31, 2017
Canadian troops operating in east Mosul as mission extended to June
OTTAWA - Canadian special forces have taken a more active role in the battle for Mosul, where weeks of bloody fighting have failed to dislodge the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. National Defenc...
Mar 31, 2017
Montreal police chief says it could take up to a decade to clean up force
Montreal’s police chief said Friday it could take between five and ten years to bring about a change to the internal culture within the embattled force. Philippe Pichet presented his plan to res...
Mar 31, 2017
Seven-year term for trafficking girl, 14: 'As low as humanity gets'
HALIFAX - His name was Owen, but he called himself Staxx - street-slang for a pile of money. She was 14 when she met him online, at a vulnerable time in her life, and they talked regularly through Ins...
Mar 31, 2017
New Brunswick premier says property tax scandal will be investigated
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant says his government will fully investigate after a whistleblower alleged that more than 2,000 property owners have been given improper and inflated ta...
Mar 31, 2017
Berlin police seek info on tools used for museum gold heist
Berlin police have published pictures of the tools used to steal a 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin stolen from a city museum as they scramble to track down the thieves. Officials say at least two b...
Mar 31, 2017
