Category Archives: Canada
StatsCan testing texting as one way to stop major data quality concerns
OTTAWA - Forget checking your mailbox for future Statistics Canada questionnaires and instead be ready to check the text-message inbox on your cell phone. Texting questions to Canadians is one of seve...
Jul 22, 2016
Facts about the Tragically Hip as the band launches farewell tour
VICTORIA - Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip begins what is being billed as its final tour after lead singer Gord Downie was diagnosed with a deadly brain cancer. Here are some facts about Downie ...
Jul 22, 2016
Kirstine Stewart to leave Twitter, but no details 'at this time': spokesman
TORONTO - Twitter’s vice president for media in North America, Kirstine Stewart, will be leaving the company. A Twitter spokesman confirmed in an email Thursday that Stewart will part ways with ...
Jul 21, 2016
Quebec judge expected to rule Friday in Anticosti Island dispute
MONTREAL - A judge says he will rule Friday in the dispute between Petrolia Inc. and the Quebec government over exploratory oil and gas drilling on Anticosti Island. Petrolia is seeking an injunction ...
Jul 21, 2016
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, July 22 SHOOTING IN MUNICH MALL: Munich police warned people to stay inside and avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who open...
Jul 21, 2016
Canada decries South China Sea tensions, says ongoing tension bad for security
OTTAWA - Canada weighed in Thursday in the ongoing South China Sea dispute, with a thinly-veiled call to China to abide by an international ruling that has angered Beijing. While the statement from Fo...
Jul 21, 2016
A timeline of the killing of Taliyah Marsman and her mother Sara Baillie
CALGARY - A funeral was held Thursday for five-year-old Taliyah Marsman and her mother Sara Baillie who were slain last week in Calgary. Here is a look at how events unfolded in the case: July 10, 11:...
Jul 21, 2016
Harnett to IOC: continue the quest for a drug-free Olympics in Rio
OTTAWA - The International Olympic Committee needs to get on with the job of removing the smear of doping from the Olympics, says the leader of Canada’s athletes heading to the Rio Games. The IO...
Jul 21, 2016
Fort McMurray evacuee wins lotto, will donate to charities that helped family
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A lottery winner from Alberta who was among the thousands forced to flee a huge wildfire in Fort McMurray says he plans to give back to charities that helped his family. Jason W...
Jul 21, 2016
Feds looking to keep criminals, spies out of trusted traveller programs
OTTAWA - Smuggling drugs, hate propaganda or people across the border could get you a lifetime ban from a trusted traveller program like Nexus under planned new rules. The Canada Border Services Agenc...
Jul 21, 2016
