Category Archives: Canada
Saskatchewan First Nation moving all residents over rising water
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The Red Earth First Nation in northern Saskatchewan is moving out its remaining residents due to rising water levels. Karen Hill, a Saskatchewan government official, says chief ...
Jul 18, 2016
Julie Snyder has been told who ordered her surveillance last month: lawyer
MONTREAL - A lawyer representing the estranged wife of former Parti Quebecois leader Pierre Karl Peladeau says his client now knows who ordered a man to tail her. Mathieu Piche-Messier says Julie Snyd...
Jul 18, 2016
Montreal dog lovers, other Canadians march against breed specific legislation
MONTREAL - Hundreds of two-and-four-legged Montrealers took part in a march on Saturday to protest bans on pit bulls and other legislation that targets specific dog breeds. The event was part of a wid...
Jul 18, 2016
The troops, Brexit and health care: three ways fed politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - The political class was sent reeling again this week with the shock - now sickeningly familiar - of another apparent terrorist attack, this time in Nice, France. Sorrow quickly turned to desp...
Jul 18, 2016
Bain going for defence of not criminally responsible in election-night shooting
MONTREAL - The accused in Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting has dismissed the notion the attack was motivated against the Parti Quebecois. Richard Henry Bain testified at his first-degree mu...
Jul 18, 2016
Halifax taxi industry in crisis over sex assault allegations: cabbies' group
HALIFAX - The Halifax taxi industry is in crisis after four alleged sexual assaults by drivers in three months have left customers frightened to take a cab, the head of a drivers’ association sa...
Jul 18, 2016
Ukrainian embassy confirms death in Nice attack; no word on missing student
OTTAWA - The Ukrainian embassy in Ottawa says one of its citizens died in a deadly truck attack in France last week but won’t confirm whether the victim is a missing student studying in Canada. ...
Jul 18, 2016
Storage locker babies: Accused's son testifies he never saw his mother pregnant
WINNIPEG - A woman accused of hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker never appeared to be pregnant, her adult son testified Monday. The son, who cannot be identified under a court-order...
Jul 18, 2016
Eight CF-18s sent on month-long training exercise despite reported jet shortage
OTTAWA - Eight Canadian fighter jets have been deployed on a massive training exercise in the Pacific, despite Liberal government warnings the country does not have enough such aircraft to defend Nort...
Jul 18, 2016
Tory leadership candidate Maxime Bernier favours free-trade deal with China
OTTAWA - Signing a free-trade deal with China would allow Canada to increase its exports by $7.7 billion a year, Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier said Monday. Such an agreement would a...
Jul 18, 2016
