Category Archives: Canada
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
Liberals stick to their guns as U.S. again calls for NATO allies to spend more
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has sent its strongest signals yet that Canada does not plan to bow to U.S. pressure to dramatically increase what it spends on defence. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Til...
Mar 31, 2017
Immigration minister's husband found not criminally responsible in assault case
HALIFAX - The husband of Nova Scotia’s immigration minister is undergoing a 45-day psychiatric assessment after being declared not criminally responsible for allegedly assaulting, threatening an...
Mar 31, 2017
Federal Liberals earmark old Tory infrastructure money for GO Transit project
TORONTO - The federal Liberals are earmarking $1.8 billion in idle, Conservative infrastructure cash to a regional express rail project around Canada’s largest city and millions more for smaller...
Mar 31, 2017
