Category Archives: Canada
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, March 10 --- PRIVACY CZAR WANTS STRONGER PROTECTIONS FOR CANADIANS IN U.S.: Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the Trudeau government should press the ...
Mar 10, 2017
First Nations to have greater role in parks: federal environment minister
BANFF, Alta. - Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is supporting a greater role for First Nations in creating new protected areas and managing the ones Canada already has. Speaking Friday a...
Mar 10, 2017
The border, the budget and chafing over 'the centre': federal politics this week
OTTAWA - The delight and optimism surrounding International Women’s Day persisted over several days on Parliament Hill this week, with all the political parties piling on with speeches and toast...
Mar 10, 2017
'I'm warm. I'm alive:' Manitoba man recounts three nights stuck in snowstorm
LYNN LAKE, Man. - Ernest Castel had a dilemma: venture out into waist-high snowdrifts to seek help or stay hunkered down in his SUV? The northern Manitoba man and five others had just spent two nights...
Mar 10, 2017
'A vile and evil crime:' Alberta woman sentenced for drugging, killing daughter
CALGARY - The father of a nine-year-old girl drugged and killed by her mother says no prison sentence will do his daughter justice. “I will never get to watch my daughter grow up, but I know she...
Mar 10, 2017
Canada-China free trade must benefit Canadian 'workers', says new Beijing envoy
OTTAWA - Canada’s Beijing-bound ambassador says the government will have to sell any possible Canada-China free trade to Canadian workers in order to overcome rising anti-trade sentiment. John M...
Mar 10, 2017
Accused in alleged bomb threat against Muslims at Concordia University gets bail
MONTREAL - A man accused in an alleged bomb threat against Muslim students at Concordia University was granted bail Friday under a lengthy list of conditions. Hisham Saadi, 47, faces three charges ste...
Mar 10, 2017
'Disturbing:' Disabled child sexually exploited, RCMP say after child-porn tip
HALIFAX - A Halifax-area man has been charged with sexually exploiting a disabled child after Nova Scotia RCMP were tipped off about child pornography found on the Internet. Cpl. Dal Hutchinson said t...
Mar 10, 2017
Man, 23, charged after $300k luxury sports car crashed in Burlington, Ont.
BURLINGTON, Ont. - It was a very expensive collision. Police say a luxury sports car valued at more than $300,000 slammed into a hydro transformer in Burlington, Ont., on Thursday night. Images posted...
Mar 10, 2017
U.S., Canada 'perplexed' about migrant surge into Canada, Kelly says
OTTAWA - Most of the migrants who recently made the difficult journey across the border into Canada were in the United States legally, making the trend hard to explain, says U.S. Homeland Security Sec...
Mar 10, 2017
