Category Archives: Canada
Homa Hoodfar says it is 'wonderful' to be back home
MONTREAL - A Canadian-Iranian woman who spent nearly four months in prison in Iran was greeted with hugs and flowers as she landed in Montreal on Thursday and declared it was great to be back in Canad...
Sep 29, 2016
Amber Alert cancelled after two boys found in Saskatchewan
LA RONGE, Sask. - The RCMP has lifted an Amber Alert that had been issued for two young aboriginal boys in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The alert was issued early Thursday for the boys, aged eight and 10. ...
Sep 28, 2016
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Amber Alert issued for two boys in Saskatchewan
LA RONGE, Sask. - An Amber Alert has been issued for two young aboriginal boys by RCMP in La Ronge, Sask. Mounties say eight-year-old Conner Arthur Ratt and 10-year-old River Roberts are believed to h...
Sep 28, 2016
Trudeau addresses star-studded One Young World gathering in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embraced his role as minister for youth as he urged a gathering of young people from every country in the world to act now, instead of waiting for some distant m...
Sep 28, 2016
As seas heaved, 20-tonne pipe fell to within 12 metres of offshore oil well
HALIFAX - When heaving waters in the North Atlantic wrenched a string of massive steel pipes from a drilling ship off Nova Scotia’s coast, one of the 20-tonne sections of the plummeting coil str...
Sep 28, 2016
Premiers demand meeting with Trudeau to discuss long term health funding
OTTAWA - Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders want face time with Justin Trudeau to discuss health care funding - and they want a commitment from Ottawa before they’re willing to ta...
Sep 28, 2016
Manitoba drops promise to hire former Bank of Canada governor for budget review
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is cancelling a plan to have former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge review the province’s balanced-budget law. The move is the latest in a series of Tory r...
Sep 28, 2016
Diehard BlackBerry fans bemoan the end to Canadian-made smartphones
TORONTO - BlackBerry addicts are notoriously loyal, but even they will have a hard time sticking by their beloved device now that BlackBerry Ltd. is outsourcing production, say observers who admit to ...
Sep 28, 2016
The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Sept. 28 --- CARR HIGHLIGHTS PIPELINE BENEFITS: Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is talking up the benefits of the Pacific Northwest LNG project in Brit...
Sep 28, 2016
Refugee influx last year helped push population over 36M: Statcan
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says a record number of immigrants arriving in the last year helped push the country’s population to an estimated 36,286,425 as of July 1. The agency says the country ...
Sep 28, 2016
