Category Archives: Canada

From the PM to pro-athletes, prominent figures react to Trump victory
From the prime minister to pro-athletes, a number of prominent figures from across Canada are weighing in on Donald Trump’s election as America’s 45th president. Here is what some of them ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016
Youth behind violent sex attacks in Winnipeg morally culpable: Crown
WINNIPEG - A Crown attorney in Winnipeg says a man who was 17 when he committed two horrific sex attacks should be sentenced as an adult. Jennifer Comack told a sentencing hearing the man, who cannot ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016

Trump victory throws basics of Canada's foreign policy into question: experts
OTTAWA - Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election victory could overturn long-held assumptions and positions about Canada’s place in the world - from free trade and defence to the rul...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016

How 'vicarious trauma' is passed down from parent to child in military families
TORONTO - When retired soldier Jacqueline Buckley sees her four-year-old grandson get angry, she can’t help but think of her own capacity to explode with rage. She also thinks of the fury that c...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016
Trudeau set to lose environmental ally with Trump in White House
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to face an incoming American president who could kill continental climate-change plans, and threaten the Liberals’ domestic agenda that binds enviro...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016
N.B. captain charged with sexual assault of fellow Armed Forces member
GAGETOWN, N.B. - A captain at New Brunswick’s Gagetown military base has been charged with sexual assault. The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service says the charge relates to an allege...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016

Political 'refugees' from Trump presidency possible if rhetoric real: observers
HALIFAX - A Donald Trump presidency could prompt a flow of politically motivated American emigrants akin to the Vietnam war era, though passionate first impulses to leave may cool as the new leader...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016
What Donald Trump's presidential victory could mean for Canada's economy
TORONTO - A Donald Trump administration, combined with a Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives, could have reverberations that will be felt by the Canadian economy for years. Here&...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016

Donald Trump election win roils Canadian Conservative leadership race
OTTAWA - Donald Trump hadn’t even given his victory speech early Wednesday morning before his brash style of nativist, anti-immigrant rhetoric began intruding into the Canadian political scene. ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016
Hydroelectric dams spike methylmercury risk for indigenous people: Harvard study
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Muskrat Falls project will cause a spike in toxic methylmercury in wild food sources that are crucial to Labrador communities, says a new Harvard University study of hydro...
Kayla Derkach Nov 09, 2016

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