Category Archives: Canada

Aviation community mourns death of fellow pilot in weekend airshow crash
COLD LAKE, Alta. - A pilot killed during an airshow in Alberta on Sunday is being remembered a someone who loved sharing his passion for Canada’s aviation history. Pilot and geologist Bruce Evan...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

'For you, baby girl:' bubbles and sparklers at vigil for slain woman, daughter
CALGARY - Bubbles floated into a grey sky and sparklers crackled as hundreds gathered in a northwest Calgary park Sunday evening to pay tribute to Sara Baillie and her five-year-old daughter Taliyah M...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016
Swift Current, Sask., hit with flash floods after 6 cm of rain
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. - Heavy rainfall caused a flash flood in parts of Swift Current on Saturday leaving some homes in the southwest Saskatchewan city with flooded basements. Images on social media sh...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016
Iranian jails withholding prisoners' medical care: Amnesty International
MONTREAL - As international concern mounts over the fate of a Montreal-based academic jailed in Tehran, an Amnesty International report claims Iranian authorities regularly put political prisonersR...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

Researcher probes Canadian links to 'slave labour,' abuse at Magdalene laundries
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - They were called fallen women, and through much of the last two centuries they toiled in church-run Magdalene laundries as penance for often-petty crimes, “loose morals&...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016
Growth of online sales forcing retailers to review employee commissions
MONTREAL - Rising online sales are prompting some Canadian retailers to consider overhauling the commission structures that motivate their store employees to deliver strong customer service. Clothing ...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

Car dealers putting up tents to protect lots in Alberta's 'Hailstorm Alley'
CALGARY - “Hailstorm Alley” can be a very unforgiving place. The area - which runs from High River, just south of Calgary and north to central Alberta - hosts more than 40 hail storms ever...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

Republican convention: Fear of turmoil stirs memories of 1968
CLEVELAND - Melancholic old memories of 1968 are being stirred this week as a political convention gathers under a cloud of concern, a toxic turn in race relations poisons the American atmosphere, and...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

Private equity firms zeroing in on Western Canada oilpatch bargains
CALGARY - The largest energy-focused private equity firm in Calgary is ramping up its oilpatch investing pace to take advantage of bargain prices and an expected recovery in oil prices next year. ARC ...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

Jail program gives moms a new start, helps babies develop, advocates say
VANCOUVER - Mo Korchinski remembers what it was like being separated from her three children. Her struggle with addiction and cycle through British Columbia’s corrections system led her to what ...
Kayla Derkach Jul 18, 2016

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